As you grow older, your chance of having a diagnosis of prostate cancer increases.
In fact, we believe that one of the reasons that prostate cancer is now so much more common than it was 50 years ago is very obvious: more men live longer today than they did 50 years ago. If you live longer, your chance of having a diagnosis of prostate cancer goes up proportionally.
The average age of men diagnosed with prostate cancer in America is still over 60 years (although diagnosis in younger men is much more common than it used to be). However, the range of ages at which diagnosis can occur is very wide. Cases of clinically evident prostate cancer have initially been diagnosed in men in their twenties and in men in their nineties.
You aren’t immune to prostate cancer just because you’re only 30 … and you may never have any significant sign or symptom of prostate cancer even though you’re 95!
