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Prostate Cancer Cases in Europe Have Skyrocketed Since 1980: The Problem Isn't the Disease, It's the Test We Use

In the last 40 years, the increase in prostate cancer cases in Europe can only be described as 'dramatic'. Looking at the data, it can be seen that this disease has gone from affecting 89.6 Europeans per 100,000 in 1985 to affecting 385.8 in 2007. And yet, over these four decades, there have been very few (if any) changes in mortality. What's going on here? A Long-Debated Problem Until now, the evidence was partial and of varying quality. Therefore, a European research team led by Salvatore Vaccarella from the International Agency for Research on Cancer decided to study the problem

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