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North Carolina 2024 - Prostate Cancer Facts & Statistics

 

Download NORTH CAROLINA's 2024 Prostate Cancer Facts & Statistics Sheet

PDF Preview: 2024 Facts & Statistics - State

Incidence Rates

  • Given 100,000 North Carolina men, 123.9 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime.
  • 10,260 will be diagnosed this year.
  • The state is ranked #12 in the country for prostate cancer incidences.

 

Mortality Rates

  • 19.8 in every 100,000 men will die from prostate cancer in North Carolina
  • 1,170 men in the state, this year alone.
  • The state is ranked #24 in the country for prostate cancer deaths.

 

CDMRP Grants in North Carolina

Year Introduced: 1997

Total Grants to Date: 160

Total Grand Awards Through FY 2022**: $74.4M 

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Grant Recipient

Year

Amount

Duke University2022 
2018 
2016 
2012 
2008
$1,423,676 
$1,609,691 
$1,589,994 
$1,574,515 
$1,556,406

* Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs 
**PCRP (Prostate Cancer Research Program) data for FY 2023 has not yet been posted

 

CDC’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) Funding in North Carolina

  • Objective: Reduce the mortality rate in men due to prostate cancer. 
  • Objective: Increase the percentage of North Carolina men who have ever talked with their healthcare providers about the advantages and disadvantages of a PSA test. 
  • Strategy: Conduct targeted outreach using evidence-based strategies to decrease disparities in prostate cancer mortality among male population groups who experience high death rates from prostate cancer. 
  • Strategy: Conduct messaging campaigns to increase awareness of the importance of informed decision making regarding prostate cancer. • Prostate cancer mortality rate: baseline - 21/100,000; 2020 target -13/100,000. • % of men who have talked to health care provider about advantages and disadvantages of PSA test: baseline - 31.6%; 2020 target - increase by 10%.
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