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The prostate is a small gland located underneath the bladder in men. It is about the size of a walnut and fits around the tube (called the urethra) which carries urine out of the bladder. The prostate produces some of the fluid that mixes with sperm when a man ejaculates.
Prostate cancer is caused when cells in the prostate multiply and grow out of control to form a mass or tumour. It is a very variable disease. Some tumours remain small and grow so slowly that they cause no problems for the rest of a man’s life; others are aggressive, grow quickly and become life-threatening. Many of these aggressive cases will eventually spread to the bones, where they can cause severe pain.
Prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed male cancer in many western countries. Currently there are 37,000 new cases a year in the UK; 218,000 in the USA; 25,000 in Canada an