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Stage 3a, Group 9, just discovered. Dr. gave options but have question

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Aug 30 10:08am | Replies (42)
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@groundhogy

Here is a good website to compare odds of cure for the major treatment paths. You have to determine your stage, low risk, intermediate, or high risk (risk of recurrence). So if you are intermediate, pull up the intermediate chart and you can see the odds of 10-20 yr survival, etc. based on the treatment you pick.
https://www.prostatecancerfree.org/compare-prostate-cancer-treatments/
It is best viewed on computer or just print it on paper. Not so viewable on phone.

To make the graphs easier to read, i drew a dot on the endpoints of the elipses, and then drew a line through the dots. This turns the elipses into lines.

Also be aware the the graphs don’t show any salvage radiation benefit. This would boost the surgery odds up a bit.

And, this is a very dysfunctional industry from my view. Loads of bad info mixed in with the good info. Same with the docs. Many of them are more dangerous than the cancer.

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northoftheborder | @northoftheborder | Aug 11 9:08am

Thanks for sharing that.

I work with a different kind of data for a living, but still, I'll suggest using sites like that *very* carefully.

When you combine data from different sources and then try to extrapolate a new conclusion that wasn't the goal of the original studies, even a tiny error or wrong assumption can explode into seriously-wrong conclusions.

That happens even with full academic rigor like ethics boards and peer review, which is why you never trust the results of single study. When it's just a website that's convinced a single radiation oncologist to sit on its board and it's letting you generate arbitrary comparisons based on multiple independent variables, it might still be interesting, but I suggest swallowing it with a fistful of salt.

There's a very good reason that major research institutions like Mayo or the Cleveland Clinic don't offer this kind of thing.

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