title: Long-term survival of prostate cancer in southeastern Netherlands.
abstract: With the increase in detection at an early stage, only a few and conflicting results have been reported on the long-term outcome for prostate cancer beyond 10 years. The vast majority of prostate cancer patients diagnosed between 1955 and 1984 in southeastern Netherlands, with a population of almost one million inhabitants, did not receive any curative treatment. We calculated the prognosis for 10-year survivors of prostate cancer diagnosed in the era preceding prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing to determine how long these patients exhibited excess mortality. All patients under age 70 diagnosed with prostate cancer and registered in the population-based Eindhoven Cancer Registry between 1955 and 1984 were included in the study. Relative survival was calculated for those who survived for at least 10 years (n = 174). Initially, these patients still exhibited an almost 25% excess mortality risk, but this decreased with time and no excess mortality was found after 15 years.
authors.affiliation: Comprehensive Cancer Centre South, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. p.post@ikz.nl
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Post
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hendrikx
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: van der Heijden
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Coebergh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011379:Prognosis; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D012042:Registries; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate