Recent analysis of data comparing prostate cancer death rates across Britain has uncovered that prostate cancer mortality can differ by nearly 5 times from one constituency to the next.
This has led politicians and others in Britain to label the apparent disparity a 'Post Code Lottery' in reference to the fact that, seemingly, men lucky enough to live in a certain postal code may have much improved chances of surviving their prostate cancer when compared to men unlucky enough to live in a different postal code.
No one is quite sure as to what the true cause of these large geographic disparities is, but plenty of people are weighing in with their opinions and the whole thing has caused quite a stir in the UK. Several politicians and other national leaders have used the news to offer their own prescriptions for fixing the problem (and for fixing healthcare in general).
Interestingly, studies like this one have been done in the United States and elsewhere with similarly startling results showing large differences in prostate cancer mortality from one geographic area to the next.

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