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Cancer of the prostate is an heterogenic, "epidemic" world-wide tumor, which represents the most common form of solid cancer in adult males, excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer. Prostate cancer now surpasses the incidence of lung cancer and becomes the second leading cause of male cancer death in the industrialized West countries. The incidence and mortality of prostate cancer are increasing to alarming rates (in the USA carcinoma prostate was projected to be responsible for 14% of all male cancer deaths in 1996). ⋯ This fact may more a reflection of earlier diagnosis rather than improvements in treatment. Five-year prostate cancer survival has improved for every stages of disease in the last decenium. Thanks to the screening programmes performed in many countries, urologists are faced with an increasing incidence of clinical less advanced prostate cancer and this trend is likely to continue. (ABSTRACT TRUNCATED)