A new long-term prediction tool estimates the risk of dying from prostate cancer, offering a more accurate way to interpret ...

About 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime. But a new study concludes an increasing number of men with limited life expectancy are being overtreated for the disease with procedures ...

What Prostate Cancer Survival Rates Tell Us Can Prostate Cancer Be Cured? Screening and Early Detection Lead to Better Survival Prostate cancer is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, ...

Men treated for nonmetastatic prostate cancer under current guidelines are up to 6 times less likely to die from their cancer than from other causes, according to data from a Swedish cancer registry.

Risk of death and cause of death 30 years after diagnosis as a proportion of 100 men. Grey figures indicate the proportion of men alive after 30 years, blue figures the proportion of men who died of ...

Watchful waiting was significantly associated with a low risk of prostate cancer progression and mortality among men with less than 10 years of life expectancy. Watchful waiting is an appropriate ...

Patients with nonmetastatic prostate cancer are more likely to die from other causes than from cancer when treated per guidelines. The 15-year cancer mortality risk is 5.5% for low-risk and 22% for ...

National guidelines from associations such as the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Urological Association recommend that men with a life expectancy of less than 10 years ...

Dr. William Russell specializes in radiation oncology in Baton Rouge. He graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1984. Russell is double-board certified in internal medicine ...