Prostate cancer mortality in patients surviving more than 10 years after diagnosis.
OBJECTIVE
We investigated the long-term outcome of prostate cancer.


METHODS
Causes of death were examined in 490 patients diagnosed with prostate cancer in Göteborg between 1960 and 1979 who survived for longer than 10 years.


RESULTS
Of the patients 75 were alive and 415 died, including 62% as a direct or indirect consequence of prostate cancer.


CONCLUSIONS
Early prostate cancer is a slow growing but progressive malignant disease that will, if the patient survives long enough, kill the host.
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors