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To estimate the 2010 incidence of PCa in Spain and describe the clinical profile of newly diagnosed cases using a nationwide hospital-based registry.

National epidemiological study in 25 public hospitals with a specific reference population according to the National Health System. Sociodemographic and clinical variables of all newly diagnosed, histopathological confirmed PCa cases were collected in 2010, in the area of influence of each center. The age-standardized PCa incidence was determined based on the age distribution of the Spanish population in Spain and in 3 regions: Andalusia, Catalonia and Region of Madrid.

4087 new cases of PCa were diagnosed for a reference population of 4,933,940 men (21.8% of the Spanish male population). The estimated age-standardized PCa incidence was 82.27 cases per 100,000 men in Spain, 70.38 in Andalusia, 85.70 in …