Life insurance: prostate cancer diagnosis has increased

Talking about life insurance, more than 40,000 males are diagnosed each year in Britain with prostate cancer, according to recent data.
Roughly 40,800 UK males were given a prostate cancer diagnosis in 2009, according to Cancer Research UK, whereas only 14,000 were diagnosed back in 1989.
The amount of males who die each year as a result of prostate cancer - roughly 10,000 - has remained the same.
It is thought the rise is due to a greater amount of males receiving blood tests to find the prostate cancer biomarker Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA).
Prostate cancer specialist from Cancer Research UK, Professor Malcolm Mason, said: "Accurately diagnosing and predicting the need for treatment of prostate cancer is fraught with difficulties and there is no escaping the fact that we need a better tool than PSA to help detect prostate cancers that actually need treating. Men need to be counselled about the upsides and downsides of having a PSA test and the uncertainties that it can raise.
"We urgently need to find better tests that tell us more about a man's prostate cancer. Is the disease going to sit quietly in the background and never cause a problem or do we need to treat it aggressively? If we can accurately answer these questions, we could spare thousands of men unnecessary treatment that can lead to side effects like impotence and incontinence" also help them to achieve low cost life insurance.