The 99% 10 year survival would be disease specific. This is pretty normal for a cohort first diagnosed with PCa. Most are low risk low grade cases and survival

The 99% 10 year survival would be disease specific. This is pretty normal for a cohort first diagnosed with PCa. Most are low risk low grade cases and survival is good. Other causes of death are usually orders of magnitude higher e.g 10-20% over 10 years at age 60-70+. Hormone ablation is mostly to buy you maybe a couple years of 'life'. I put 'life' in quotes because having experienced it I found it more like a living death - but your mileage may vary. People differ in how they prioritize length versus quality of life. Most people cling to life at almost any price, perhaps until the last few weeks they stop treatment. People even cling to the hope of life at almost any price. I have friends enrolling in "cancer trials" of some slight variation of a chemo drug that has very little if any chance of curing them. A recent study found that most men who died of PCa had some major, invasive, 'unpleasant', difficult, futile treatment in the last six months of life. The price of 'hope' can be high. People dying with cancer or other diseases often come under enormous pressure from the people around them to survive as long as possible. I have experienced this myself.