Surgery improves survival rates for men with prostate cancer if radiation treatments fail
Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
Approximately 14 percent of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lifetimes. Radiation therapy traditionally has been a primary treatment for the cancer, but one-fourth of men have a recurrence of prostate cancer within five years after the therapy. Now, a researcher has found that a complex procedure to remove the prostate achieves excellent long-term survival for men after radiation therapy has failed.