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  2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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    However, because radiation therapy causes tissue changes, prostatectomy after radiation has higher risks of complications. To avoid the adverse side effects of a radical prostatectomy, doctors may recommend deferred treatment which can involve observation and palliative treatment or active monitoring with some local treatments as needed.

  3. List of cancer mortality rates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Type Age adjusted mortality rates per 100,000 people, 2013-2017. [1]All Cancer: 158.3 Oral cancer: 0.0 Esophageal cancer: 3.9 Stomach cancer: 3.1 Colorectal cancer

  4. Gleason grading system - Wikipedia

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    The Gleason grading system is used to help evaluate the prognosis of men with prostate cancer using samples from a prostate biopsy. Together with other parameters, it is incorporated into a strategy of prostate cancer staging which predicts prognosis and helps guide therapy. A Gleason score is given to prostate cancer based upon its microscopic ...

  5. Prostate cancer staging - Wikipedia

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    Prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians categorize the risk of cancer having spread beyond the prostate, or equivalently, the probability of being cured with local therapies such as surgery or radiation. Once patients are placed in prognostic categories, this information can contribute to the selection of an optimal approach ...

  6. Cancer survival rates - Wikipedia

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    The National Institute of Health (NIH) attributes the increase in the 5-year relative survival of prostate cancer (from 69% in the 1970s to 100% in 2006) to screening and diagnosis and due to the fact that men that participate in screening tend to be healthier and live longer than the average man and testing techniques that are able to detect ...

  7. Radical perineal prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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    The procedure was first performed on a 70-year old married preacher on 7 April 1904 by American surgeon Hugh H. Young and assisted by William S. Halstead, as a way of removing the prostate in cancer treatment, after prostatic massage and an early type of transurethral resection of the prostate had failed to relieve him of pain in his urethra. [8]

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