Edited by
Donna P. Ankerst
Catherine M. Tangen
Ian M. Thompson

2009

We are entering a remarkable time in medicine. In the USA and other countries, preventive medicine and public health efforts have successfully increased life expectancy substantially; concurrently, the demographics of the post-World War II population tells us that the over-50 population will dramatically increase over the next two decades. As prostate cancer is distinctly age-related, we can anticipate a tsunami-like increase in the numbers of patients with this disease.