Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
It is least common in South and East Asia, more common in Europe, and most common in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), prostate cancer is least common among Asian-American men and most common among African-American men, with in-between rates for Caucasian-American men.
Prostate cancer develops most frequently in men over fifty years of age. It is the most common type of cancer in men in the United States, where it is responsible for more male deaths than any other cancer, except lung cancer. In the United Kingdom (UK), prostate cancer is also the second most common cause of cancer death after lung cancer. Around 35,000 men in the UK are diagnosed per year; and approximately 10,000 men die from it annually.
According to the ACS, about 186,320 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 2008. The organization states that about one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lives.
However, only one in 35 men will die from the cancer. The ACS estimates that about 28,660 men will die from prostate cancer in 2008, and will cause 9% of the cancer-deaths in men. [ACS: “What Are the Key Statistics About Prostate Cancer?”]
According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (“Prostate Cancer Related Statistics”), there is a 12 in 1,000 chance for a 50-year-old men to be diagnosed with prostate cancer in Australia. That chance goes up to 45 in 1,000 for a sixty-year-old man, and 80 in 1,000 for a seventy-year-old man.
In addition, about 18,700 news cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in Australia, with nearly 3,000 men dying annually from the disease. Only about one in nine men in Australia will develop prostate cancer during their lifetimes. It is the most common cancer for men in Australia, and the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men.
David Bass
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