Prostate Disease

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Health Care Use

Hospital inpatient care

• Number of prostatectomy procedures: 158,000

Source: National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2009 table, Procedures by selected patient characteristics - Number by procedure category and age [PDF - 168 KB]

Hospice care

• Number of hospice care discharges with prostate cancer as primary diagnosis: 16,800 (2007)
• Percent of hospice care discharges with prostate cancer as primary diagnosis: 1.6% (2007)

Source: Home Health Care and Discharged Hospice Care Patients: United States, 2000 and 2007, table 7 [PDF - 430 KB]

 

Mortality

• Number of deaths from prostate cancer: 28,088
• Deaths per 100,000 males from prostate cancer: 18.5

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 12, 14 [PDF - 2.1 MB]

 

More data

• Age adjusted death rates for selected causes of death by sex, race, and Hispanic origin Health, United States, 2011, table 24 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
• Cancer incidence rates by sex, race, and Hispanic origin Health, United States, 2011, table 47 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
• Search Tables for Prostate Disease in Health Data Interactive