title: Total prostatectomy for clinically localized prostatic cancer: long-term results.
abstract: The fate of the first 52 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer who underwent total perineal prostatectomy at our clinic and have been followed for a minimum of 15 years is reviewed to evaluate the long-term impact of this operation on the disease. None of these patients received any adjuvant therapy. Nine patients (17 per cent) had recurrence and 5 (10 per cent) died of disease during this interval. The actual observed over-all survival at 15 years was 64 per cent, the actuarial survival was 67 per cent and the cause-specific survival was 90 per cent.
authors.affiliation: Section of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Virginia Mason Clinic, Seattle, Washington.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Brannen
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Weissman
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000368:Aged; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D013997:Time Factors