The Prostatitis Network
By Patients, For Patients
The “prostatitis” diagnosis is assigned to 8% and 1% of patients by urologists and primary care physicians, respectively. There are an estimated 2 million outpatient visits for prostatitis per year in the US. There are more outpatient visits for prostatitis than for BPH or prostate cancer.
The most conservative study puts the incidence at around 3%, which means at least 4.5 million men in the US and 90 million worldwide. In 2002 a lot of research emerged to show that IC and CPPS are one and the same, and Dr CL Parsons from UC San Diego has suggested both conditions should be renamed as Lower Urinary Dysfunctional Epithelium (LUDE).