Doctors' Digest

Prostate cancer treatments – new developments

Prostate cancer treatment is one of the success stories in medicine today. Many prostate cancers tend to be slow growing and a range of treatments is available at different stages. This means that the outlook for a man diagnosed with prostate cancer is very good – his chances of surviving for 5 years are virtually 100% and just over 90% of men survive for a decade. Around 75% can expect to still be enjoying life 15 years on, thanks to continual advances in prostate cancer treatment. These survival statistics are not any reason to be complacent, however. This disease still kills 200,000 men every year in Europe and the USA. New prostate cancer treatment strategies, new drugs, and new drug targets are still being actively sought and developed. This article on prostate cancer is by Kathryn Senior, a freelance journalist who writes health, medical, biological, and pharmaceutical articles for national and international journals, newsletters and web sites.