thomasdevos
10-05-2009, 10:26 PM
Prostate Cancer Life Expectancy
Men, how long will you live with or without prostate cancer? If you're honest, you really do not know. We all have a life expectancy based upon general statistical probabilities but none of us know when or how we die.
No matter what disease or illness that we inflict May, including prostate cancer, we still can not with certainty when we will die. We know at some point of our own mortality will become evident. Just because you have prostate cancer in May, however, does not mean that you have been sentenced to death.
Here are some facts about prostate cancer
1. Prostate cancer is generally considered a slow growing cancer. This means that you may have high quality many years of life ahead of you ? if indeed you are not hit by a truck on the way to work on the highway.
2. Prostate cancer usually advanced by four major steps. At what stage you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, which will determine your probable chances of death due to complications from cancer.
3. As you age, your risk of contracting prostate cancer increases. Men have a lifetime risk or chance of contracting cancer of the prostate by about one in 10 that increases as we age. Good news! You survived your 70s. Bad news ? your risk of prostate cancer is one in three.
4. Prostate cancer is primarily considered a geriatric disease. In other words, the vast majority of men under the age of 60 will not be suffering from prostate cancer. Remember fact number three above though, as the risk increases dramatically after age 60.
Under such a well known cancer societies and cancer associations like the American Cancer Society, about 92 percent of all men diagnosed with prostate cancer survive at least five years after initial diagnosis. Although such a prediction may seem less than expected, remember that prostate cancer is considered a disease of the elderly and many people who contract the disease are in their 60s and 70s.
So, your life expectancy after a diagnosis of prostate cancer will depend on what stage the cancerous tumor has progressed, your age and willingness to consider all treatment options. Ultimately, survivability of prostate cancer depends on early diagnosis and effective treatment
Reference Site:
prostate cancer treatment (http://prostate-cancer-treatment-cure.com)
prostatecancerfoundation (http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org)
en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer)
www.cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate)
neworiental (http://www.neworiental.org/publish/portal0/tab1127/info377702.htm)
Men, how long will you live with or without prostate cancer? If you're honest, you really do not know. We all have a life expectancy based upon general statistical probabilities but none of us know when or how we die.
No matter what disease or illness that we inflict May, including prostate cancer, we still can not with certainty when we will die. We know at some point of our own mortality will become evident. Just because you have prostate cancer in May, however, does not mean that you have been sentenced to death.
Here are some facts about prostate cancer
1. Prostate cancer is generally considered a slow growing cancer. This means that you may have high quality many years of life ahead of you ? if indeed you are not hit by a truck on the way to work on the highway.
2. Prostate cancer usually advanced by four major steps. At what stage you are diagnosed with prostate cancer, which will determine your probable chances of death due to complications from cancer.
3. As you age, your risk of contracting prostate cancer increases. Men have a lifetime risk or chance of contracting cancer of the prostate by about one in 10 that increases as we age. Good news! You survived your 70s. Bad news ? your risk of prostate cancer is one in three.
4. Prostate cancer is primarily considered a geriatric disease. In other words, the vast majority of men under the age of 60 will not be suffering from prostate cancer. Remember fact number three above though, as the risk increases dramatically after age 60.
Under such a well known cancer societies and cancer associations like the American Cancer Society, about 92 percent of all men diagnosed with prostate cancer survive at least five years after initial diagnosis. Although such a prediction may seem less than expected, remember that prostate cancer is considered a disease of the elderly and many people who contract the disease are in their 60s and 70s.
So, your life expectancy after a diagnosis of prostate cancer will depend on what stage the cancerous tumor has progressed, your age and willingness to consider all treatment options. Ultimately, survivability of prostate cancer depends on early diagnosis and effective treatment
Reference Site:
prostate cancer treatment (http://prostate-cancer-treatment-cure.com)
prostatecancerfoundation (http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org)
en.wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer)
www.cancer.gov (http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/prostate)
neworiental (http://www.neworiental.org/publish/portal0/tab1127/info377702.htm)