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CMAJ - September 8, 1998JAMC - le 8 septembre 1998

Prostate cancer: 1. The descriptive epidemiology in Canada

Table 1: Probability of prostate cancer occurring in men of various ages
  Time frame; risk of occurrence, %
Age, yr Within
5 yr		 Within
10 yr		 Within
lifetime
40
45
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
90*		 0.01
0.04
0.20
0.72
2.02
4.04
6.16
7.77
8.18
6.71
5.01		  0.04
 0.21
 0.74
 2.13
 4.41
 7.16
 9.45
10.45
 9.50
 7.73
–		 12.27
12.26
12.23
12.08
11.57
10.25
 8.10
 5.45
 2.88
 1.09
 0.38
*There are not enough data to calculate the risk of occurrence within 10 years.

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