Is the outcome of conservative management for localized prostate cancer acceptable? An overview.
The outcome of conservative management in a consecutive series of 107 localized prostate cancers (mean age 73.5 years) has been analyzed. Follow-up ranged from 1 to 12 years. Following regular surveillance and no initial treatment, 3 died from prostate cancer with a median survival of 6.3 years compared to 34 who died from intercurrent disease with a median survival of only 2.6 years. The observed survival for the whole group was similar to the expected survival for an age-matched population in Scotland. This was despite the fact that the nodal status and the capsular invasion were unknown.
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University Department of Surgery/Urology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
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D000368:Aged; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D015996:Survival Rate