Not all men diagnosed with prostate cancer die from the disease.

More Evidence Not All Prostate Cancers Need Treatment

Repost from Newsmax Health | July 22, 2013

In a study of men who died of other causes, almost half of them prostate tumors.  Meaning to say that those with prostate tumors die with the tumor not because of the tumor.

Lead author Dr. Alexander Zlotta, director of Uro - Oncology at Mt. Sinai hospital made this conclusion.  He and his colleagues examined 300 men who died, but not from prostate cancer;  220 men in Russia and l00 men in Japan.

They found out that fewer men in Russia and Japan died  from prostate cancer, although the disease is present at same proportion as in USA.

In USA, 239,000 men will be diagnosed to have prostate cancer, but only 39,000 will die from it, according to American Cancer Society.

The % of a man being diagnosed with prostate cancer is 17% but his risk of dying is 3.4 %.  Cancer will not spread as fast as other diseases, and the patient may die from other causes and other types of tumor.

The idea is to find out which tumors are more deadly rather than finding in general the patient has prostate tumor