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2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   The quality of life with both procedures would be similar in relation to urinary and sexual function, and there appear to be no differences in postoperative surgical complications. [12] Robotic surgery can have a small effect on postoperative pain between right after surgery, a shorter hospital stay and a lower requirement for blood ...

3. Prostate - Wikipedia

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   It is the region of the prostate gland that grows throughout life and causes the disease of benign prostatic enlargement. [6] [7] Anterior fibro-muscular zone (or stroma) — This area, not always considered a zone, [4] is usually devoid of glandular components and composed only, as its name suggests, of muscle and fibrous tissue. [2]

4. Brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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   Brachytherapy for skin cancer may result in a shedding of the outer layers of skin (desquamation) around the area of treatment in the weeks following therapy, which typically heals in 5–8 weeks. [1]: Ch. 28 If the cancer is located on the lip, ulceration may occur as a result of brachytherapy, but usually resolves after 4–6 weeks. [75]

5. How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born

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   1940. Overall life expectancy: 62.9 Women: 65.2 Men: 60.8 The United States began the ’40s on an upswing, with life expectancy up sharply from 58.5 years in 1936, when the nation was still ...

6. Prostate brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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   Brachytherapy is a type of radiotherapy, or radiation treatment, offered to certain cancer patients. There are two types of brachytherapy – high dose-rate (HDR) and low dose-rate (LDR). LDR brachytherapy is the one most commonly used to treat prostate cancer. It may be referred to as 'seed implantation' or it may be called 'pinhole surgery'. [1]

7. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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   In the United States there has been an increase in the 5-year relative survival rate between people diagnosed with cancer in 1975-1977 (48.9%) and people diagnosed with cancer in 2007-2013 (69.2%); these figures coincide with a 20% decrease in cancer mortality from 1950 to 2014. [8]