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Projected value of life lost due to prostate cancer deaths in the United States. The most recent years of data (ie, from 1999 to 2003) were used to calculate sex- and age-specific prostate cancer mortality rates for the base case mortality rate projections. Sensitivity analysis scenarios included annual 1%, 2%, and 4% declines in prostate cancer mortality.
