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Prostate Cancer Research Program

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, accounting for 30 percent of all cancers in men. This year, approximately 192,280 men in the United States will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and an estimated 27,360 will die from the disease. Prostate cancer is second only to lung cancer as a leading cause of cancer deaths in men. During the period of 2000 to 2003, the average annual incidence of prostate cancer among African American men was 60 percent higher than among Caucasian men. Since 1980, the average annual death rate among African American men has been more than twice that of Caucasian men. Currently, there is no cure for locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.

Funding Opportunities Search Awards Integration Panels Peer Review Participants Related Prostate Cancer Links PCRP Perspectives: Keep Informed on Breakthroughs in Prostate Cancer Research (New Issue for March 2010) Previous PCRP Perspectives Congressional Appropriations $890 million in FY97–08 $80 million in FY09 Research Program Fact Sheet

Program Information Paper Prostate Cancer

Innovative Minds in Prostate Cancer Today (IMPaCT) 2007 IMPaCT Meeting First Ten Years (Adobe PDF)

Funding Summary

• 2,013 awards in FY97–08
• Previous Proposals Recommended for Funding