Carcinoma of the Prostate Gland

Carcinoma of the prostate gland is an insidious and deadly disease of slowly increasing frequency. While there were only 83 cases discussed in the literature up to 1899, by 1935 Rich had observed the condition in 14 per cent of autopsies on men, and Moore expressed the belief that he could recognize it in 21 per cent of men past 40. By 1941 Baron and Angrist had claimed that they had observed occult forms in 46 per cent of 50 men past 50 years of age in consecutive autopsies. Using these figures, and assuming that there are 17,000,000 men past 50 in the United States, Hinman has estimated that there must be between 3,000,000 and 8,000,000 cases in this country at any one time. Carcinoma of the prostate gland is listed as the cause of 15,000 to 20,000 deaths in the United States each year (Jewett). To it Huggins attributed