Sunday, August 28, 2011

Prostate Cancer stage 6

Prostate Cancer stage 6?
what chance does someone with a stage 6 in prostate cancer have to treated?Is there any chance for recovery?
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1 :
never hard of stage 6.......maybe 4...............that ain't so good
2 :
There is NO stage 6 cancer of any kind.
3 :
There is no stage 6 in any cancer. Stage 4 is the final cancer, no treatment no prognosis just time to get things in order.
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There is no stage 6. You may be confusing stage with Gleason score. 6 is a fairly common Gleason score, not that scary actually. Stage 4 prostate cancer (if that's the case) may be treatable with hormone therapy and/or chemo. In some cases, hormone therapy can stall advanced prostate cancer for many years. (Just visit the Yananow website to meet men who have been living for years with "stage 4".) But with today's medical knowledge, it would not be curable. Sometimes recurrent prostate cancer is called stage V, but this is not the norm. The staging is often expressed in a more nuanced way, the TNM system. For example, mine was T2c--on both sides, extending into but not through the capsule. If, on the other hand, you are talking about Gleason 6, this is usually a curable cancer, but the exact prognostics depend upon more factors than Gleason alone. Check out: http://www.ehow.com/how_5275952_estimate-prostate-cancer-cure-odds.html as well as the references I used, below.
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There is no such thing as "stage 6" cancer. May I suggest that you consult an appropriate medical reference source to learn more about cancer, it diagnosis, and treatment.
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I think there may be possible confusion here because I believe the individual Gleason readings are called 'stage' and the combined readings are called 'score'. JeremyB

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