Surviving Prostate Cancer

Chances for survival from prostate cancer are dependent on many different factors. 

Obviously, early diagnosis is the best case scenario.  Nip it when it is still in State I or Stage II with a Gleason Score of less than seven and you are looking at optimum results using any of the three treatment options we’ve discussed:

• Watchful Waiting
• Surgery
• Radiation Therapy

For a man who is over 70 there is a strong possibility that he might die of other natural causes rather than prostate cancer.  The fact is that many men with localized Stage I or II prostate cancer ARE much more likely to die of something other than the cancer itself.

If a man with localized prostate cancer decides to take the Watchful Waiting treatment option, there is a 19% chance of metastases developing in his next 10 years.

For men with Stage III prostate cancer, the prognosis is 50-50 that the cancer will progress in the next 10 years and result in death.

Stage IV prostate cancer is called metastatic prostate cancer and the most widely used treatment is hormonal which might stave off the disease for another two to three years.  The likelihood of fatality within 10 years is very high.