16.09.2015

Increasing Male Life

Expectancy

European Prostate Awareness Day

MEP Philippe De Backer

Prof. Chris Chapple

Patient Ken Mastris

on behalf of Europa Uomo

Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

(BPH)

• Was changed from a lethal disease to a chronic

condition in the last century by modern urology.

Prof. Chapple will deal with this reality.

• Affects 50 million men in the European Union

starting after the fifth decade in 50 percent of

males increasing to 80 percent with aging.

Age

standardized

incidence and

mortality rates

in the European

Union 2012 for

prostate cancer

in 2012

EJC 49; 2013

Most people live past

age 65, at which point

the top cause of death

is heart disease,

followed by cancer

according to a tally of

all 2,6 million deaths

in the US in 2013.

Time, July 6-13; 2015

Needed support