We don't fully understand the reason but prostate cancer varies in prevalence and severity depending on a person's ethnicity, lifestyle and where they live. Genes, diet, chronic stress and poor nutrition play a part but they are not the entire explanation.
Prostate Cancer: Low Risk vs High Risk
The word cancer is powerful and frightening but in the case of prostate cancer there is a wide spectrum of risk. Most men with prostate cancer in the US die from heart attacks. Professor Matthew Cooperberg explains how cancer is a spectrum of biology that physicians are really only just starting to understand.
