Video: How successful is Hormone Therapy?

ksargent

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Posted 11/6/2015 7:46 PM (GMT 0)

Are the statistics used in this slide correct?

Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J587IWpTiA

"How successful is it?" at 17:06

Metastatic Prostate Cancer
- 5 years after beginning hormone therapy, 40-75% of
patients show no signs or cancer progression

Localized High Risk Cancer
- 7 years after adjuvant therapy following surgery,
77% of patients are cancer progression-free

- 5, 8, and 12 years after combined radiation and hormone therapy,
90%, 87%, 81% (respectively) are cancer progression-free

Fairwind

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Posted 11/7/2015 1:27 AM (GMT 0)

Those numbers mean nothing if, after surgery, radiation and ADT your PSA continues its relentless climb....Fortunately, less than 10% of those diagnosed with prostate cancer fall into this category..230,000 are diagnosed every year while only 32,000 die from it, that's a 7.1% mortality rate....

Break60

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Posted 11/7/2015 9:40 PM (GMT 0)

Are those stats for 5 ,8 and 12 years on combined ADT plus RT for localized high risk PCa as well? Hope so!!! Where are they from ?
Bob

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