Prostate Cancer and Prostate Specific Antigen

Abstract

Prostate cancer is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in men. It is the second leading cause of death due to cancer in men. In the United States, benign and malignant diseases of the prostate are responsible for more surgery than any other organ disease in men over the age of fifty. In Europe prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death in males . In Netherlands the morbidity and mortality caused by this tumor are exceeded only by those of lung cancer and in a retrospective study, 1.62 % incidence of prostate cancer is reported in Lahore, Pakistan.