The number of men living with prostate cancer in the UK has risen by around 100,000 since 2020, according to new figures highlighted in the article, with a man now diagnosed with the disease roughly every eight minutes. The rise underscores prostate cancer's position as the most common cancer among men in the UK and reflects ongoing concerns about detection rates, an ageing population and awareness of the disease's symptoms and risk factors.

The article's supporting text was not available beyond its headline figures, so further detail on the data source, methodology or expert commentary could not be confirmed. The core statistics reported are the increase of roughly 100,000 men living with prostate cancer since 2020 and the estimate of a new diagnosis occurring every eight minutes.