September 2, 2025- The American Cancer Society (ACS) released Prostate Cancer Statistics, 2025, a report on current prostate cancer occurrence and outcomes in the United States. According to the study, prostate cancer incidence rates have reversed from a decline of 6.4% per year during 2007 through 2014 to an increase of 3.0% annually during 2014 through 2021, with the steepest increase (4.6%-4.8% per year) for advanced-stage diagnoses. Simultaneously, mortality declines slowed from 3%-4% per year during the 1990s and 2000s to 0.6% per year over the past decade. These major findings are to be published today in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The report also shows wide disparities. Despite steep declines, mortality rates for prostate cancer are two times for Black men compared to White men, versus 67% higher incidence rates. Likewise, Native American men have 12% higher prostate cancer mortality than White men, despite 13% lower incidence.