What You Need To Know About: Prostate Cancer

This booklet is about cancer of the prostate. Each year, more than 186,000 American men learn they have this disease. Prostate cancer is the second most common type of cancer among men in this country. Only skin cancer is more common.

Learning about medical care for prostate cancer can help you take an active part in making choices about your care. This booklet tells about diagnosis and staging, treatment options, tests you may have after treatment and taking part in research studies.