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Advanced Prostate Cancer Might Be Curable
Late-Stage Cancer Traditionally Considered Inoperable
POSTED: 2:38 pm CST April 1,
2005
A certain type of prostate cancer considered inoperable might be operable after all -- and, thus, curable, according to recent research.
A study of more than 5,600 men from the Mayo Clinic suggested that cT3 prostate cancer, a disease in which the cancer spreads from inside the prostate to immediately outside it, is operable and has 15-year cancer survival rates of almost 80 percent."These patients have a better chance if they undergo surgery and are living longer than if they undergo radiation therapy," said Dr. Horst Zincke, a Mayo Clinic urologist and the study's lead author.
Researchers said treatment of this type of prostate cancer has been controversial because it is a third-stage cancer in which the malignancy has spread.
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