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Nine‐year prostate cancer survival differences between aggressive versus conservative therapy in men with advanced and metastatic prostate cancer

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To the authors' knowledge, the survival benefit of local therapy in the setting of advanced prostate cancer remains unknown. The authors investigated whether prostate‐directed treatment with either surgery or radiotherapy… Click to show full abstract

To the authors' knowledge, the survival benefit of local therapy in the setting of advanced prostate cancer remains unknown. The authors investigated whether prostate‐directed treatment with either surgery or radiotherapy versus conservative treatment in the setting of locally advanced or metastatic disease was associated with improved survival within a cohort of men from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Breast and Prostate Cancer Data Quality and Patterns of Care Study (CDC POC‐BP).

Keywords: prostate; advanced metastatic; therapy; prostate cancer; versus conservative; cancer

Journal Title: Cancer
Year Published: 2018

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