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What is prostate cancer?
Dr Paul Erotocritou explains that prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers for men, and the risk increases as a man gets older.
Transcript
Prostate cancer is one of the commonest cancers that affects men. There's a one in eight chance that a man will suffer from prostate cancer in his lifetime. The prostate itself is a gland that sits under the bladder, through which the water pipe passes and this increases with size as we get older.