Cancer survival rates in US hit new highs
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Cancer is still the most common cause of death for men in the US ages 60 to 79 and women ages 40 to 79. For all adults combined, cancer is the second most common cause of death (after heart disease).
If a person has an "aggressive" prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9, what does that mean? What's the outlook when it comes to survival rate and prognosis? Every cancer survivor is unique, of course, and people should only take medical advice from ...
Treatment with Leuprorelin did not improve OS or disease-specific survival for patients with nonmetastatic, high-risk prostate cancer who have undetectable PSA levels, while causing more adverse events.
Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the most advanced. When your Fred Hutch Cancer Center ...