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Prostate Cancer Outcomes - Report Card

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 17 11:45am | Replies (32)

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@todcha

It surprised me that the "before treatment" percentages were higher for radiotherapy than the other forms of treatment. This is interesting information thanks for posting!

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Maybe it's because of the average age (72) of those electing radiotherapy versus the average age (64) of those opting for surgery AND the fact that the radiotherapy group had 40% high risk (HR) individuals versus 20% HR for those in the surgery group, that the radiotherapy group had a higher percentage of negative sexually related pretreatment issues.

Even more surprising to me is that the surgery group, on average 8 years younger with less than half the HR percentage (as compared to the radiotherapy group), took only one year to virtually "catch up" with the older radiotherapy group, regarding negative sexual side effects and surpass their radiotherapy brothers with a significantly greater percentage of negative urinary issues.