Sunday, June 12, 2011

If a man's prostate cancer is rated a 6, how advanced is that

If a man's prostate cancer is rated a 6, how advanced is that?

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1 :
Most cancers are staged 0-4, with sub stages after each main staging number. There is not a stage 6.
2 :
Do you mean the Gleason score? This determines grade and there is no way to know how advanced it is by that. The stage explains how advanced it is.
3 :
Hi stage 6 he is already in the urn way past stage 4 and stage 5 is death and stage 6 your already in the jar. sorry this was not tactful but there is no stage 5 or 6 ok. So if some one tells you they are stage 5 or 6 you know they are not telling the Truth.
4 :
My PSA was 6.3 with a gleason score of 3+4=7. My cancer had spread beyond the glands. The numbers help but does not tell the whole story. After the surgery I now have metastatic prostate cancer which hormones are keeping under control.
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Since there is no stage 6, I assume you're talking about a Gleason score of 6, which is very common and is considered to be moderately aggressive. It's really at the low end of the scale, because a lot of docs wouldn't consider Gleason 5 to be cancer. Gleason score does not indicate how advanced it is. To get an idea of the odds of that you will need more data like PSA and stage. See: "How to Estimate Your Prostate Cancer Cure Odds" http://www.ehow.com/how_5275952_estimate-prostate-cancer-cure-odds.html

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