Long-Term Survival and Localized Prostate Cancer

With any cancer treatment, the first priority is survival. Several large studies suggest that there is a greater chance of long-term survival for patients undergoing surgery over other potential treatments.

relative risk

A study of 3,159 patients found that 15 years after treatment, those who had undergone radical prostatectomy had a 40% lower risk of death from prostate cancer than radiation patients.1

In a study of 844 patients with localized prostate cancer, the patients who had undergone prostatectomy showed a higher prostate cancer survival rate than men choosing other treatments.2

1Tewari A, Raman JD, Chang P, Rao S, Divine G, Menon M. Long-term survival probability in men with clinically localized prostate cancer treated either conservatively or with definitive treatment (radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy). Urology. 2006 Dec; 68(6):1268-74.
2Merglen A, et al. Short- and long-term mortality with localized prostate cancer. Arch Intern Med 2007; 167:1944-1950.
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