title: [Cancer of the prostate. Epidemiologic evaluation, incidence, and trends, especially in France].
abstract: With 7,172 deaths in 1982, prostatic cancer is a frequent cancer in France observed among old men, coming just after the lungs cancers and representing 9.6% of male mortality from malignant disease. Its incidence in the French regional population based on departmental registries is about 25/100.000 (age adjusted to the world standard population). The geographical distribution throughout the world shows a high incidence rate among the black american, the Scandinavian countries and low rates in the south-east of Asia. As well as incidence as for mortality low trends of increase all over the world are observed. In the clinical data from the "Enquete Permanente Cancer" (E.P.C.) the high proportion of metastatic dissemination (48%) at initial time of diagnosis, and also the high proportion of epithelial cancer (92%) emerge from a series of 1,223 prostatic cancer registered between 1975 and 1982. The 9 year-survival relative rate (32%) for the whole group lets appear a level of cure observed after the 8 years of follow-up. Few risk factors have been yet recognized so that it is not easy to identify risk population and propose them any preventions.
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005602:France; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D012042:Registries
vernacular_title: Cancer de la prostate. Bilan épidémiologique, fréquence, tendance, en particulier en France.