Surgery Found Effective For Patients With Aggressive Prostate Cancer, Study Suggests

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Surgery Found Effective for Patients With Aggressive Prostate Cancer, Study Suggests

 

 

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2010) — In one of the first studies to focus exclusively on the outcomes after treatment for patients with high-risk prostate cancer, researchers have found that surgery provides high survival rates. Collaborating researchers at Mayo Clinic and Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia discovered that patients with the most aggressive forms of prostate cancer who had radical prostatectomy procedures had a 10-year cancer-specific survival rate of 92 percent and an overall survival rate of 77 percent.

 

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100927112944.htm