Fig. 2

Prostate cancer incidence rates by calendar years. Prostate cancer incidence rate in Sweden (red dashed curve) obtained from the Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries for men aged 50–79 years between 1963 and 2019.26 The age-standardized incidence rate in the study population (green solid line) was standardized using the Swedish reference population for men aged 50–79 years between 1963 and 2019. Abbreviations: PCa, prostate cancer.