Monday, June 8, 2009

Prostate cancer, what percent die within two years of it

Prostate cancer, what percent die within two years of it?
and 4 years please. No i don't have it, a friend does.
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1 :
According to the National Cancer Institute, the 5 year survival rate for prostate cancer patients whose condition has not metastasized is 100%. In other words: it is very treatable. However, for patients with metastatic prostate cancer the survival rate drops considerably.
2 :
Most men have likely had prostate cancer 2-4 years before they are even diagnosed. The 5-year survival rate refers to what percentage of patients are alive 5 years from diagnosis, for localized disease it is 100%, but this rate decreases over time. It is also misleading, as the survival rate is 79% for unstaged disease and most other cancers do not have an unstaged category. At stage 4 the rate drops to 31%. .
3 :
Statistically, the answer to you question is zero percent (see data at link below)... Prostate cancer (assuming it has not spread outside the prostate) is mostly a disease of men who are old enough they will die from something else before the cancer kills them.
4 :
If caught early enough, prostate cancer is very curable. Unfortunately, my father's prostate cancer had already metastasized by the time his was diagnosed. Even so, he survived seven and a half years after being diagnosed.
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They usually get percentages after 5 years. People with prostate cancer at any stage is 80 % & with localized cancer is 94 %. People with regional metastasis is 85 % and distant metastasis is 29 %. If caught early & treated with surgery & radiation, prostate cancer has a good prognosis compared to other cancers. Often these patients die from something else, not the prostate cancer.There are new chemos every day so the percentages can even be higher now. Good luck to your friend.

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