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- • Screening for prostate cancer should not be any different for men who have had a vasectomy than for those
- who have not."
- There are no known ways to protect against the development of prostatic cancer.
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- At Significantly Higher Risk
- • The probability of having the disease increases with age. Men under 50 have less than one chance in a hundred
- of getting prostate cancer whereas about half of all men over 80 will have it.
- • The risk is twice as high in blacks than in whites and is lowest for Asians. Jews have the lowest mortality rate
- from prostatic cancer, blacks the highest.
- • The United States and Canadian death rates are high compared with other countries. The urban rate is slightly
- higher than the rural rate.