title: [Mortality due to prostatic carcinoma in northern Sweden].
abstract: In a retrospective study 6890 patients with prostate cancer from the North Swedish Cancer Register were analyzed according to cancer specific survival. Prostate cancer mortality was 40% in patients with well differentiated cancers, 54% in patients with moderate differentiated prostate cancer and 72% in men with low differentiated prostate cancer. Prostate cancer mortality was 80% in men younger than 60 years, 63% in men 60-69 years old, 53% in men 70-79 years old and 49% in men older than 80 years.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Urologie und Andrologie und Abteilung für Onkologie, Universität Umea, Schweden.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Damber
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Grönberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Mortalität infolge des Prostatakarzinoms in Nordschweden.