THE PROSTATE CANCER: THE DIAGNOSIS IS OFFICIAL

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The diagnosis is official. You have prostate cancer. What do you do now? The stage of your cancer and your age and overall health all have a huge bearing on this important decision.

Prostate cancer grows relatively slowly. It can stay localized, or confined to the prostate, indefinitely—so a man can die with prostate cancer, and not of it. But once it escapes the prostate, cancer’s growth is relentless. It can no longer be cured. And once it has spread to bone, a man’s average life expectancy is about three years.

In studies of watchful waiting in men with small, moderately well-differentiated cancers (Gleason scores from 5 to 7) that appear to be localized to the prostate, this is what happens over time: In ten years, 40 percent of these men will have cancer that has spread to the bone; by fifteen years, 70 percent of these men will have cancer spread to bone.

What does this mean to you? Once again, we go back to your age, general health, and stage of cancer.

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