Survival with localized carcinoma: radical prostatectomy vs radiation therapy.
The charts of all patients receiving radical surgery and radiation therapy for cancer localized to the prostate in the years 1950 to 1977 in the State of Connecticut were reviewed. Long-term survival rates at ten and fifteen years were considerably better in those patients treated with radical surgery.
D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000401:mortality* / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D003237:Connecticut; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography