Radiation Therapy Prolongs Life In Men With Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 21:28
in Health & Medicine
Men whose tumors recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two years of the recurrence. Surprisingly, survival benefits were best in men whose new tumors were growing fastest, according to results of a "look-back" study of 635 men by Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions researchers reported June 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.