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Let's say you undergo medical procedures to cure it, (chemo, surgery, etc.) and end up dying from a complication from it. Does that still count as a prostate
by dukeofdoom 3y ago
Let's say you undergo medical procedures to cure it, (chemo, surgery, etc.) and end up dying from a complication from it.
Does that still count as a prostate cancer death (the 5%)?
- abalone 3y agoThis is so very rare that I doubt it would move that statistic.
- balderdash 3y ago100k a year doesn’t seem rare https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/ihpi-briefs/FTR https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/ihpi-briefs/FTR
- abalone 3y agoThat’s for all surgeries as a whole, not prostate cancer treatments.
- jrpt 3y agoCoroners will list immediate, intermediate, and underlying (proximate) cause of death. In that case the immediate cause of death would be say sepsis after surgery, but the proximate cause of death is the cancer. If you are looking at cause-specific mortality I think you do include proximate causes even if it isn't the immediate cause. But like the other commenter said, I think this is factor is so small as to not be impactful.