Thursday, January 12, 2012

How long does it take from the time a Doctor tells you that you have prostate cancer till you die

How long does it take from the time a Doctor tells you that you have prostate cancer till you die?

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1 :
Can be years and it depends on the treatment:you could live to be 100 years old. Planets.
2 :
Prostate cancer is not a death sentence. People live long healthy after treatment in most cases.
3 :
It depends on how old you are when the diagnosis is made, and what stage the cancer is in. There are many treatment options available, depending on the stage, and your age when diagnosed. In many cases, a man with prostate cancer will not die from that. Instead he will die of something else, sometimes old age, as a matter of fact. The earlier the cancer is detected, the sooner treatment can begin and the cancer either removed or slowed down even more. In that case, you aren't likely to die from prostate cancer at all. Just the diagnosis doesn't mean a death sentence. To learn more about your specific situation, you just need to speak with the urologist treating you. However, prostate cancer does not equate death in any predetermined or even average amount of time.
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It doesn't have to kill you at all. If they take out the prostate, you will lose feeling in your penis, you will lose your ability to have an erection, lose the ability to ejaculate, become sterile, and lose the ability to control urinating. Then you only WISH you were dead. New surgeries are attempting to preserve the nerves that run through the prostate and are sometimes successful





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