Node Positive Prostate Cancer – Treatment and Survival
Cancer ABCs From Surviving To Thriving - How to Thrive with Cancer
English - March 21, 2022 13:00 - 2 minutes - 1.86 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Science cancer prostate cancer rare cancers more than one cancer cancer thriver cancer survivor cancer survivorship living with cancer multiple cancers cancer support Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Overall survival and cancer-specific survival for those with node-positive prostate cancer treated with surgery lived longer than those who elected radiation treatment.
Men diagnosed with node positive prostate cancer need to decide if they want to include a targeted treatment to their prostate gland along with a systemic treatment like hormonal therapy.
Most men who elect to include a targeted therapy will choose between either surgery or radiation. A retrospective observational study concluded that men who did elect to use surgery as opposed to radiation lived longe.
Read the study at;
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pros.24317
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