my dad was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. What are the survival rates? I've been hearing like 97% if it's caught early. is that true?
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yeah, if you catch it early and have surgery to remove it, recovery is quite common. prostate cancer is a very treatable cancer
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It depends on in which stage is his Cancer. Hope, he'll do well. Good luck!
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ask lance, the biker who won so many tour de france races. he had it.
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very good survival rates with treatment and caught early!
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Yes. In much older men, it's usually something else that kills them as prostate cancer is very slow growing.
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Prostate cancer is the number cancer with the highest survival rate. My grandfather had it 20 years ago, he died of old age. My father-in law was diagnosed in November and went for the seed implantation and is doing great today - no cancer. Just get to the doctor to see the course of treatment. Good Luck :-)
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Think you are close!
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Prostate cancer rates are higher and prognosis poorer in Western societies than the rest of the world. Many of the risk factors for prostate cancer are more prevalent in the Western world, including longer life expectancy and diets high in animal fats. Also, where there is more access to screening programs, there is a higher detection rate. Prostate cancer is the ninth most common cancer in the world, but is the number one non-skin cancer in United States men. Prostate cancer affected eighteen percent of American men and caused death in three percent in 2005.[45] In Japan, death from prostate cancer was one-fifth to one-half the rates in the United States and Europe in the 1990s.[46] In India in the 1990s, half of the people with prostate cancer confined to the prostate died within ten years.[47] African-American men have 50-60 times more prostate cancer and prostate cancer deaths than men in Shanghai, China.[48] In Nigeria, two percent of men develop prostate cancer and 64% of them are dead after two years.[49] In patients who undergo treatment, the most important clinical prognostic indicators of disease outcome are stage, pre-therapy PSA level and Gleason score. In general, the higher the grade and the stage, the poorer the prognosis. Nomograms can be used to calculate the estimated risk of the individual patient. The predictions are based on the experience of large groups of patients suffering from cancers at various stages.[50]
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can't answer without knowing the stage. ask his urologist. basic info is at web md: http://www.webmd.com/diseases_and_conditions/prostate_cancer.htm
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If caught early, prostate cancer has a high survival rate. My father in law had stage 3 which was not caught early and he has been in remission for almost 4 years. He had aggressive treatment because of the stage it was in at the time he was diagnosed. With the treatments available today the survival rate is very high for that type of cancer. My prayers are with you and your father. God Bless.
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Yes, survival rates are very good. It's one of the "best" cancers to have, *IF* it's caught early. Men, however, are not happy about the possibility of losing their prostate because if it is removed (which doesn't need to happen all the time but it's possible) they can suffer from incontinence and impotence, two very distressing things for men. However, don't worry about your dad just yet. And BTW - Lance Armstrong had metastatic testicular cancer, not prostate cancer. You can read about prostate cancer here: http://familydoctor.org/264.xml
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Yes it's true. I take care of patients with prostate ca. If treated early, usually by removing the prostate, things go great.
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Most any cancer is bad. But you never hear about all the survivals. There are many.
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(Although I don't want to "cut-n-paste", in this case I will for the sake of not trying to rewrite all of the information. However, I edited a few things to fit this specific question. Thank you for your understanding.) My uncle had prostate cancer. His doctor told him that prostate cancer is very slow growing, but they could go in and remove it if he wanted. After asking a lot of questions, and the doctor telling him that at his age (70's) he would most likely die of "natural causes" before he would die of the cancer, he decided not to do anything. But the doctor was wrong in HIS case. He died 3 years later (2001), as a direct result of the cancer. It did grow slowly at first, but not toward the end. During his last year he began to have the common symptoms of advanced cancer, but the last few months he was in a lot of pain and discomfort. He was in a hospice facility for about a month before his death so they could medicate him enough to relieve the pain. (My uncle's children now say they wish he had gone ahead and had surgery when the cancer was still contained in the prostate, because he might still be alive.) Although it is considered a slow growing cancer, my personal opinion, after losing 4 family members to cancer (uterine, protstate, leukemia, and 1 unknown because it was so advanced there were tumors everywhere), and 1 who's currently battling it (liver), is don't be complacent with any medical information received, from whatever source. Be diligent, never be afraid to ask a lot of questions, and research and read all you can on the subject. Knowledge can help your dad and your family in making decisions and fighting the battle to win. Early detection is defnitely the key, as the earlier cancer is detected the better the chances of beating it. Since you didn't mention what stage his cancer is in, it's difficult to say what the chances of complete remission are in his case. However, many men have and do beat prostate cancer. Keep your chin up, be very supportive, learn what you can, and most of all NEVER GIVE UP. Your dad may be the one with cancer, but the entire family is battling it. FIGHT WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT. May God bless your dad and your family.
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Every body is different. Tell your Dad about the cancer information on my page. God Bless
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