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Survival rate after prostate surgery is good: study

(The Press Association) UPDATED 2009-08-06

Men with prostate cancer who choose surgery are likely to live 15 more years, a long-term study has found. In the study of 12,677 men, only 12 percent had died from a cancer-related cause 15 years later. Researchers say that since most men were in their 60s or 70s when diagnosed, that means they lived a normal lifespan. But experts point out that the study does not indicate whether the surgery was linked to the survival rate, or if it's related to secondary therapies, or the slow growth of prostate cancer in general. Read full story >

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