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There are a lot of overgeneralized statements here and facts that border on misleading. Metastatic prostate cancer is relatively rare and most patients with pr
by motte 5y ago
There are a lot of overgeneralized statements here and facts that border on misleading. Metastatic prostate cancer is relatively rare and most patients with prostate cancer generally pass from other diseases long before pc progression
- Johnny555 5y agoIsn't that what they said? The 10-year life expectancy for localized prostate cancer is around 98 percent. It’s remarkably curable. Many prostate tumors are so slow-growing and nonthreatening, they’re not even treated—they’re simply monitored to make sure they stay nonthreatening. “You’re more likely to die with prostate cancer than of prostate cancer,” says Dr. Isla Garraway, director of research in the Department of Urology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
- 123409871234 5y agoIt's not particularly rare. Even if prostate cancer will only kill a small percentage of men that have it, it's such a common cancer that it still ends up killing around 34,130 men a year in the US making it the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the US. Figures are similar for other countries. source: https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/prostate-cancer/statistics https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/prostate-cancer/statisti...