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  2. Biochemical recurrence - Wikipedia

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    Biochemical recurrence is a rise in the blood level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in prostate cancer patients after treatment with surgery or radiation. Biochemical recurrence may occur in patients who do not have symptoms. It may mean that the cancer has come back. Also called PSA failure and biochemical relapse. [1]

  3. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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    For men over 64 with prostate cancer limited to the pelvis, using fewer, larger doses of radiation (hypofractionation) results in similar overall survival rates. [28] The risk of dying from prostate cancer or having acute bladder side effects may be similar to that of longer radiation treatment. [28]

  4. Prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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    Prostate cancer is a major topic of ongoing research. From 2016–2020, over $1.26 billion was invested in prostate cancer research, representing around 5% of global cancer research funds. [122] This places prostate cancer 10th among 18 common cancer types in funding per cancer death, and 9th in funding per disability-adjusted life year lost. [123]

  5. What you should know to reduce the risk of prostate cancer - AOL

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    Together, these additional tests can increase our ability to detect prostate cancer, ultimately leading to more effective and personalized treatments. More prostate cancer testing and detection ...

  6. What kinds of cancer can be discovered by enlarged prostate ...

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    The scope used during the prostate surgery may also reveal signs of bladder cancer. "If you go past the (prostate), you get into the bladder," Brawley says, "and that's where you might see a ...

  7. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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    Several types of cancer are associated with high survival rates, including breast, prostate, testicular and colon cancer. Brain and pancreatic cancers have much lower median survival rates which have not improved as dramatically over the last forty years. [4] Indeed, pancreatic cancer has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers.

  8. Active surveillance of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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    PSA based screening and treatment of prostate cancer at a localized stage can prevent prostate cancer death for some men. [ 7 ] [ 10 ] However, if curative intervention is the downstream consequence of every screen detected prostate cancer, a large proportion of men will undergo unnecessary treatment and experience functional declines in ...

  9. What Happens When a Man Is Not "Intimately Active?" - AOL

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    One 2016 study involving nearly 32,000 men found that those who reported ejaculating more frequently had a lower risk of prostate cancer. But unless you’re skipping out on self-pleasure in ...