Four hundred new cases of prostate cancer are reported every year in Cyprus, Health Minister Philippos Patsalis said Tuesday.
He added that the good news is that usually nine out of ten cases are diagnosed at an early stage.
“Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in older men and in most cases it grows very slowly without causing significant harm” Patsalis told a press conference on the occasion of the prostate cancer awareness week launched in collaboration with Europa Uomo.
However, he said that prostate cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer, after lung cancer.
Simon Malas, Director of the Oncology Clinic of Limassol General Hospital, said that prostate cancer in Cyprus accounts for 15% of all cancer cases, adding that in 2011 out of 1700 new cases of cancer in men, 475 were prostate cancer.
