During the observed period, similarly to breast cancer, the ASIR of prostate cancer also showed an increasing trend, with the highest rate of increase among the common cancers, of 112.32%.
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Secular Trend of Cancer Death and Incidence in 29 Cancer Groups in China, 1990-2017: A Joinpoint and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.
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In 2017, the number of deaths caused by tumors reached 2 million [2,606,906 (2,507,332–2,702,388)], which was nearly twice that in 1990, although a decreasing trend in the ASDR of cancer and an upward trend in the ASIR were observed.