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Four Top Ways to Drop Your Prostate Cancer Risk, According to Experts

WHILE THERE IS NO CERTAIN WAY TO PREVENT prostate cancer, staying healthy as you age (or working to reverse existing health issues) can lower your prostate cancer risk. This blog will explore four top ways to drop your prostate cancer risk.

First, we’ll explore prostate cancer risk factors you cannot change. We will then pivot to six ways you might lower your chances of being diagnosed with (or dying from) prostate cancer.

This year, there will be an estimated 288,300 newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer in the United States. This figure represents nearly 15 percent of all new cancer cases.

In addition, 34,700 men will die of prostate cancer in 2023. This number translates to nearly six percent of all cancer deaths nationwide.

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Unchangeable Risks: Age, Race, & Inherited Genetics

First, prostate cancer risk increases with age. The American Cancer Society (ACS) explains that prostate cancer increases with age. Approximately one…