• Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Georgia men

• Over 6,000 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed in Georgia in 2005

• Prostate cancer accounts for 29% of all new cancer cases among men

• The prostate cancer incidence rate among black men is 76% higher than among white men in Georgia

• One in six American men in the United States will develop prostate cancer in his lifetime

* Statistics obtained from the August 2006 Georgia Epidemiology Report.