Treatments After Prostate Surgery
Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Although primary prostate surgery or radiotherapy is successful in many cases of prostate cancer, some patients suffer a recurrence of the disease, which is most often first detected by a measurable PSA blood test -- affecting 30 percent to 40 percent of patients after surgery. The presence of cancer potentially outside the prostate after surgery, will affect about a third of men.