[Prostate cancer incidence and mortality trends in France from 1980 to 2011]

Abstract

The prostate cancer became for two decades the most frequent cancer in men. We describe the evolution of its incidence and mortality from 1980 to 2011 for France.

Methods: Incidence data were collected from registries and national incidence estimates were based on the use of mortality as a correlate of incidence.

Results: After a very strong increase of incidence between 1980 (24.8/100,000) and 2005 (124.5/100,000), we observe a net decline since (97.7/100,000, in 2011). The reduction began earlier for the old patients. The evolution of mortality is very different. We observe a regular reduction since the end of 1990s (from 18.0/100,000 in 1990 to 10.5/100,000 in 2011). The reduction began earlier for the young patients.

Conclusion: This pattern of evolution is observed in all the countries where the use of the PSA had caused an important increase of the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Level of evidence: 3.

Keywords: Cancer de la prostate; Incidence; Mortality; Mortalité; Prostate cancer; Trends; Évolution.