By Julie Fidler
It was revealed earlier this month in a study published in the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases that cases of advanced prostate cancer in the United States have spiked 72% in the last decade. There are a few reasons why this might be happening.
The findings made researchers wonder whether the increase was attributable to a recent trend of fewer men getting screened for the disease.
Senior study author Dr. Edward Schaeffer, chair of urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine, said:
“One hypothesis is the disease has become more aggressive, regardless of the change in screening.
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