Riding for Awareness
Facts and Statistics on Prostate Cancer
- Prostate cancer is diagnosed every 2 3/4 minutes, approximately 190,000 new cases each year. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America among men.
- More than 30,000 American men lose their lives to prostate cancer each year, one death every twenty minutes.
- Prostate cancer incidence rates increased 192% between 1973 and 1992.
- One in six American men is at lifetime risk of prostate cancer. If a close relative has prostate cancer, a man's risk of the disease more than doubles. With two relatives, his risk increases fivefold. With three close relatives, his risk is about 97%.
- In the next 24 hours, prostate cancer will claim the lives of over 80 American men.
- Prostate cancer represents about 30% of all new cancer cases in American men.
- Prostate cancer accounts for approximately 30% of all cancer cases in the United States and 11% of male cancer deaths. Yet, on average, only about 5% of federal cancer research dollars have been devoted to beat the disease.
- AIDS research receives more than $2 billion in federal dollars. Breast cancer research will receive about $900 million next year. Compare that to $438 million for prostate cancer research.
- African American men have the highest prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in the world. The incidence rate is up to 60% higher than - and mortality rate double - that of Caucasian males, who have the second highest rate.
- African-American men have the highest risk of developing prostate cancer and are twice as likely to die from it as other men with the cancer.
- Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death among African-American men.
...and had someone given me this information years ago I may have been able to avoid...
- IMPOTENCY
- INCONTINENCE
- CHEMICAL CASTRATION
- RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY
- MOOD SWINGS
- HOT FLASHES
- DEPRESSION
- NO SEXUAL DRIVE WHATSOEVER
- HAVING MY INSIDES BURNED WITH RADIATION TREATMENTS
...and all the above is due to our unawareness of the Silent Killer of Men called Prostate Cancer. Because of this, my wife and I are sharing our journey with you, through this website and as we Ride for Awareness.
It is our hope that you will be spared many or all of the devastating happenings that I have endured and still endure as I continue to fight the Silent Killer called Prostate Cancer.
It is very important to inform you that I did not have any of these typical symptoms:
- Frequent Urination (Especially at night)
- Weak Urinary Stream
- Inability to Urinate
- Interruption of Urinary Stream
- Pain or Burning During Urination
- Blood in the Urine
