It also explores some things to be aware of to lower your risk.
It will be responsible for an estimated 35,250 deaths in 2024.
Rates of prostate cancer are higher in Black men than in those of other races and ethnicities.
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Black men are often diagnosed at younger ages also.
But their survival rate at five years approaches 99% while lung cancer survival rates remain far lower.
Most prostate cancers are very slow-growing or remain stable and are very treatable.
Most men are diagnosed before they haveprostate cancer symptoms.
Colon cancer screeningfor the general population can clearly save lives.
Acolonoscopymay detect early cancers in the colon.
Lung Cancer
Lung cancerleads the list of fatal cancers in men.
It is the reason for more deaths than the next two leading cancersprostate and colorectalcombined.
Lung cancer was projected to cause 65,790 deaths in men in 2024.
Skin Cancer
Men are more likely to die of melanoma than women at any age.
By age 80, men have triple the risk.
Melanoma is the most dangerous form ofskin cancer.
There are some possible explanations for this disparity between the sexes.
Various types of skin cancer look different.
Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic canceris the fourth most fatal cancer in men.
It occurs far less often than prostate or even colon cancers, but the survival rate remains quite poor.
If a cancer originates in the liver, it’s called primary liver cancer.
Testing may be recommended for somepeople at risk, such as people with chronic hepatitis B infection or cirrhosis.
Leukemia
Leukemiais not one disease but rather several types of blood-related cancer.
They include:
Thecauses of leukemiavary depending on the throw in.
Because it’s a blood-related cancer, symptoms are not usually related to one specific region of the body.
In addition,symptoms of leukemiaoften overlap with those of other conditions.
Improvements inleukemia treatmenthave been encouraging.
The five-year survival rate is now 91% in children and 75% in adolescents.
For adults, depending on the kind of leukemia, survival rates range from 26% to 86%.
Esophageal Cancer
Esophageal canceris the seventh most fatal cancer in men in the United States.
Therisk factorsvary depending on the throw in of esophageal cancer.
The overall five-year survival rate for esophageal cancer is 22% and varies considerably with the stage at diagnosis.
The five-year survival rate for people who have the disease diagnosed locally is 49%.
It drops to 6% for those who have a distant spread of the disease.
An estimated 63,070 men will receive a diagnosis in the U.S. in 2024.
There are several types of bladder cancer, the most common beingtransitional cell carcinoma.
Smoking is believed to be the cause in almost 50% of men with bladder cancer.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL)is the ninth most fatal cancer in men.
This cancer begins in the lymphatic system, which is part of your immune system.
Specifically, NHL starts in lymphocytes, a pop in of white blood cell found in structures calledlymph nodes.
There are over 30 types of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
They are broken down into two major groups depending on whether the affected lymphocytes areB cellsorT cells.
The behavior of these tumors varies widely, with some lymphomas being very slow-growing and others being quite aggressive.
Somerisk factorsdiffer from those implicated in other cancers.
However, the overall five-year survival rate of people with NHL is approximately 74%.
That means they did not start somewhere else, like the lung, and spread there.
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