AnswersDriveApproximately 90% of all prostate cancers are detected in the local and regional stages, so the cure rate is very high: Nearly 100% of men diagnosed and treated at this stage will be disease-free after five years. However, prostate cancer is still a deadly disease.
How long can you live with prostate cancer that has spread?
For example, if the 5-year relative survival rate for a specific stage of prostate cancer is 90%, it means that men who have that cancer are, on average, about 90% as likely as men who don't have that cancer to live for at least 5 years after being diagnosed.
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Can prostate cancer come back after treatment?
Treating Prostate Cancer That Doesn't Go Away or Comes Back After Treatment. If your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood level shows that your prostate cancer has not been cured or has come back (recurred) after the initial treatment, further treatment can often still be helpful.
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What are the side effects of prostate cancer treatment?
The broad categories of side effects associated with prostate cancer treatments includes:
- Urinary Dysfunction.
- Bowel Dysfunction.
- Erectile Dysfunction.
- Loss of Fertility.
- Side Effects of Hormone Therapy.
- Side Effects of Chemotherapy.
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Can you get rid of prostate cancer?
The main type of surgery for prostate cancer is a radical prostatectomy. In this operation, the surgeon removes the entire prostate gland plus some of the tissue around it, including the seminal vesicles. A radical prostatectomy can be done in different ways.
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What does Level 7 prostate cancer mean?
The lowest Gleason Score of a cancer found on a prostate biopsy is 6. Cancers with Gleason Scores of 8 to 10 may be called poorly differentiated or high grade. These cancers tend to be aggressive, meaning they are likely to grow and spread more quickly.
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Is Stage 3 prostate cancer curable?
Stage III. Stage III cancers have grown outside the prostate but have not reached the bladder or rectum (T3). They have not spread to lymph nodes or distant organs. These cancers are more likely to come back after treatment than earlier stage tumors.
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Can Stage 2 prostate cancer be cured?
Should All Patients Receive Treatment of Stage II Prostate Cancer? If prostate cancer is truly confined to the prostate, it is curable with surgery or radiation. However, in order to benefit from curative treatment, a patient's life expectancy may need to be 10-20 years from the time of prostate cancer diagnosis.
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What are the signs that prostate cancer has spread?
After the cancer cells spread to the bones, you may experience:
- bone pain.
- weak bones, increasing your risk for fractures.
- spinal cord compression and related weakness or numbness.
- high blood calcium levels.
- stiffness or pain in the hip, thighs, or back.
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Is prostate cancer curable in later stages?
The short answer is yes, prostate cancer can be cured, when detected and treated early. The vast majority of prostate cancer cases (more than 90 percent) are discovered in the early stages, making the tumors more likely to respond to treatment. Treatment doesn't always have to mean surgery or chemotherapy, either.
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What are the odds of beating prostate cancer?
According to the most recent data, when including all stages of prostate cancer: The 5-year relative survival rate is 99% The 10-year relative survival rate is 98% The 15-year relative survival rate is 96%
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Where does prostate cancer spread to first?
In theory, prostate cancer cells can spread anywhere in the body. In practice, though, most cases of prostate cancer metastasis occur in the lymph nodes and the bones. Prostate cancer metastasis occurs when cells break away from the tumor in the prostate.
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Can you ever be cured of prostate cancer?
Approximately 90% of all prostate cancers are detected in the local and regional stages, so the cure rate is very high: Nearly 100% of men diagnosed and treated at this stage will be disease-free after five years. However, prostate cancer is still a deadly disease.
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What is a slow growing prostate cancer?
Prostate cancer lives as it is born: slow-growing and benign or fast-growing and dangerous. In most cases, the cancer consists of small knots of abnormal cells growing slowly in the walnut-sized prostate gland.
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How long can a person live with prostate cancer?
The 5-year survival rate for most men with local or regional prostate cancer is nearly 100%. Ninety-eight percent (98%) are alive after 10 years. For men diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, the 5-year survival rate is 30%.
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What is the survival rate of aggressive prostate cancer?
Patients with the most aggressive form of prostate cancer who have surgery - radical prostatectomy - were found to have a 10-year cancer-specific survival rate of 92%, which is high, and a 77% overall survival rate, according to researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Mayo Clinic, USA.
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What are the symptoms of end stage prostate cancer?
What are the late stage prostate cancer symptoms?
- Weak urinary stream.
- Incomplete emptying and frequent starts and stops when urinating.
- Hematuria or blood in the urine.
- More frequent urination.
- Dysuria or pain when urinating.
- Bone pain.
- Weight loss.
- Fatigue.
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How successful is prostate cancer treatment?
Radiation Therapy 95% Effective for Prostate Cancer. The 5-year survival rate using this treatment is 98.8% overall. When compared to other common treatment options such as surgery or brachytherapy, external-beam was as effective and in some cases more effective.
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What happens to untreated prostate cancer?
The disease is easiest to treat while it is confined to the prostate. At this stage, surgery and radiation are most likely to be curative and completely kill or remove whatever cancer cells are present. If left untreated, however, prostate cancer can proceed on a number of different paths.
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What is the main cause of prostate cancer?
Inherited mutations in this gene might let abnormal cells live longer than they should, which can lead to an increased risk of prostate cancer. BRCA1 and BRCA2: These tumor suppressor genes normally help repair mistakes in a cell's DNA (or cause the cell to die if the mistake can't be fixed).
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How many stages of prostate cancer are there?
There are 5 stages: stage 0 (zero) and stages I through IV (1 through 4). The stage provides a common way of describing the cancer, so doctors can work together to plan the best treatments. Here are more details about each part of the TNM system for prostate cancer.
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What does it mean to have aggressive prostate cancer?
Predicting Aggressive Prostate Cancer. These "markers" identify whether the cancer is low risk, intermediate risk, or high risk. Low-risk prostate cancer is slow growing and not likely to spread quickly. High-risk prostate cancer is aggressive, meaning it is likely to spread quickly outside the prostate.