A NEW government medicine subsidy will allow thousands of Australian men battling an advanced form of prostate cancer to launch a three-pronged attack against their disease.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Australia and the second-leading cause of cancer deaths among Australian men - it is projected that this year alone, 25,487 Australian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 3743 will lose their lives to the disease – a 25 per cent increase in the number of deaths from prostate cancer since 2007.