Prostate Cancer Rates Rise As Mortality Decline Slows In The United States

Today, nan American Cancer Society (ACS) released Prostate Cancer Statistics, 2025, a study connected existent prostate crab occurrence and outcomes successful nan United States. According to nan study, prostate crab incidence rates person reversed from a diminution of 6.4% per twelvemonth during 2007 done 2014 to an summation of 3.0% annually during 2014 done 2021, pinch nan steepest summation (4.6%-4.8% per year) for advanced-stage diagnoses. Simultaneously, mortality declines slowed from 3%-4% per twelvemonth during nan 1990s and 2000s to 0.6% per twelvemonth complete nan past decade. These awesome findings are to beryllium published coming successful nan diary CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

The study besides shows wide disparities. Mortality rates for prostate crab are 2 times higher for Black men compared to White men, versus 67% higher incidence rates. Likewise, Native American men person 12% higher prostate crab mortality than White men, contempt 13% lower incidence.

Our investigation highlighting nan continued increases successful prostate crab incidence and persistent group disparities underscores nan request for redoubled efforts to understand nan etiology of prostate crab and optimize early detection. At property 50, per ACS guidelines, each men should person a speech pinch their healthcare supplier astir nan benefits and harms of screening, but Black men and those pinch a family history of prostate crab should person that speech astatine property 45."

Tyler Kratzer, MPH, associate scientist, crab surveillance investigation astatine nan American Cancer Society, and lead writer of nan study

Prostate crab is nan astir communal crab diagnosis among men successful nan U.S., accounting for 30% of antheral cancers successful 2025, and is nan 2nd starring crab decease successful men down lung cancer. This year, ACS estimates location will beryllium 313,780 caller cases of prostate crab and 35,770 deaths. For nan report, researchers analyzed population-based crab incidence information done 2021 and mortality information done 2023 collected by nan National Cancer Institute and nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to study authors, distant‐stage illness is expanding successful men of each age, including by astir 3% per twelvemonth successful those younger than 55 years and 6% per twelvemonth successful men 55 years and older. The five-year comparative endurance complaint for distant-stage prostate crab is only 38%, but approaches 100% for earlier-stage diagnoses.

Other cardinal findings from nan study include:

• American Indian and Alaska Native men are nan astir apt to beryllium diagnosed pinch distant shape illness (12% versus 8% among White men).
• Prostate crab mortality ranges from 36.9 deaths per 100,000 among Black men to 8.8 among Asian American and Pacific Islander men. American Indian and Alaska Native men person nan second-highest mortality rates (20.6), pinch White (18.4) and Hispanic (15.4) men ranking 3rd and 4th among broadly defined group and taste groups.
• Prostate crab mortality varies by state, pinch nan highest decease rates successful Washington D.C. (27.5 deaths per 100,000) and Mississippi (24.8 deaths per 100,000), which person a precocious proportionality of Black residents.

"Our study underscores nan request to redouble efforts to optimize early test that minimizes overdetection and to guarantee that these strategies scope Black and Native American communities successful particular," said Rebecca Siegel, MPH, elder technological director, crab surveillance investigation astatine nan American Cancer Society and elder writer of nan report. "All men merit nan aforesaid opportunity to past this communal cancer."

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), nan defense connection of nan American Cancer Society, supports nan Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening for High-risk Insured Men (PSA Screening for HIM) Act, national authorities that would waive cost-sharing requirements specified arsenic deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance for prostate crab screening tests for men pinch nan highest consequence of prostate cancer.

"Out-of-pocket costs specified arsenic co-pays tin beryllium a obstruction to accessing early detection," said Lisa A. Lacasse, president of ACS CAN. "No 1 should beryllium astatine a disadvantage against cancer. The PSA Screening for HIM Act will thief region a awesome obstacle that tin forestall those astatine precocious consequence for nan illness from getting nan screening tests they request to find prostate crab astatine nan earliest, astir treatable stage. We impulse nan House and nan Senate to walk this authorities to thief trim prostate crab disparities and prevention much lives."

Other ACS researchers contributing to nan study see Natalia Mazzitelli, MPH, Jessica Star, MPH, Dr. William Dahut, and Dr. Ahmedin Jemal.