This is sometimes called your outlook, prognosis, or life expectancy. No one can tell you exactly what will happen. How prostate cancer affects you will depend on many things. For many men who have treatment for localised prostate cancer, the treatment will get rid of the cancer. For others, treatment may be less successful and the cancer may come back. If this happens, you might need further treatment. Many men with locally advanced prostate cancer have treatment that aims to get rid of their cancer.
For some men, this treatment can be very successful and they may live for many years without their cancer coming back or causing them any problems. Read more about the risk of your cancer coming back. Some men with locally advanced prostate cancer will have treatment that aims to help keep their cancer under control rather than get rid of it completely.
For example, if you have hormone therapy on its own, it can help to keep the cancer under control, usually for several years. And there are other treatments available if your hormone therapy stops working. Treatments will also help manage any symptoms, such as pain. Some men may not respond well to one treatment, but may respond better to another. Your outlook also depends on your PSA level. A high PSA level may mean your cancer grows more quickly.
Your general health and fitness also affect survival, the fitter you are, the better you may be able to cope with your cancer and treatment. The terms 1 year survival and 5 year survival don't mean that you will only live for 1 or 5 years.
They relate to the number of people who are still alive 1 year or 5 years after their diagnosis of cancer. For more in-depth information about survival and prostate cancer, go to our Cancer Statistics section. Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate gland. Find out about who gets prostate cancer and the most common type. Your GP will ask you about your symptoms including what they are, when you get them and whether anything you do makes them better or worse.
Your treatment depends on a number of factors including how big the cancer is, whether it has spread anywhere else in your body and how well you are. Get practical and emotional support to help you cope with a diagnosis of prostate cancer, and life during and after treatment. Advanced prostate cancer means that a cancer that began in the prostate has spread to another part of the body.
The location of the recurrence is determined by these radiographic scans. Stage IV Prostate Cancer Prognosis Prostate cancers detected at the distant stage have an average five-year survival rate of 28 percent, which is much lower than local and regional cancers of the prostate. How We Treat Prostate Cancer The prognosis for metastatic prostate cancer can be discouraging, but some treatment centers—like the Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer—specialize in innovative, individualized therapy with the potential to improve outcomes.
Learn more about the Precision Medicine Center of Excellence. Long-Term Prognosis Because most prostate cancers are diagnosed with early screening measures and are curable, the average long-term prognosis for prostate cancer is quite encouraging. Recurrence Even if your cancer was treated with an initial primary therapy surgery or radiation , there is always a possibility that the cancer will reoccur. Use the following guide to gauge recurrence: Clinicians use the change in PSA over time as a marker for the aggressiveness of the recurrence.
After surgery , PSA levels should drop to zero. The most common reason for a man to undergo a prostate biopsy is due to an elevated prostate-specific antigen level PSA , determined by a blood test. In the last decade, changes in PSA screening recommendations have affected the rates of prostate cancer diagnosis. Learn more about screening for prostate cancer. In other words, the chance of a man dying from his prostate cancer is generally low.
0コメント