[Prostate cancer incidence and mortality trends in France from 1980 to 2011]

The prostate cancer became for two decades the most frequent cancer in men. We describe the evolution of its incidence and mortality from 1980 to 2011 for France.Incidence data were collected from registries and national incidence estimates were based on the use of mortality as a correlate of incidence.After a very strong increase of incidence between 1980 (24.8/100,000) and 2005 (124.5/100,000), we observe a net decline since (97.7/100,000, in 2011). The reduction began earlier for the old patients. The evolution of mortality is very different. We observe a regular reduction since the end of 1990s (from 18.0/100,000 in 1990 to 10.5/100,000 in 2011). The reduction began earlier for the young patients.This pattern of evolution is observed in all the countries where the use of the PSA had caused an important increase of the diagnosis of prostate cancer.3.