Prostate cancer--testing, incidence, surgery and mortality.

Abstract

In 2000/01, 43% of Canadian men aged 40 or older reported having had a PSA test. Prostate cancer incidence rates rose in the early 1990s, but have since fallen. Prostate cancer mortality rates have decreased among men aged 60 or older, but show little change among younger men. While interprovincial differences in rates of PSA testing were significant, differences in incidence and mortality rates were not pronounced.