How long can you live with advanced prostate cancer?

Clinically, many prostate diseases may deteriorate into prostate cancer if they are not treated in time. If they have already deteriorated into prostate cancer, treatment measures should be taken in time. Of course, the effect of treatment of late-stage prostate cancer may be affected, and it will also have a greater impact on people's life span and survival period. So how long can patients with late-stage prostate cancer live?

1. Prostate cancer needs to be treated. Cancer is a malignant lesion, but prostate cancer is a chronic cancer, which is relatively mild and belongs to a slowly progressive tumor, so the patient has a long life span. There are many effective treatments for prostate cancer, such as androgen blocking drugs. After taking them, the tumor develops very slowly, but no metastasis is found. However, unlike other liver cancers and pancreatic cancers, which can only last for 1-2 years, cancers generally last for more than 5 or 10 years, so it is a relatively slowly progressing benign cancer. At present, in addition to surgery, radiotherapy is still very effective, and surgical treatment can also be cured in the early stage, so we hope to diagnose it early and get effective treatment.

2. The early or late discovery of prostate cancer and the effectiveness of treatment directly affect the patient's survival time. When cancer cells metastasize, the difficulty of treatment increases and the cure becomes worse. The question of how long a prostate cancer patient can live is related to the diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer. Generally speaking, the five-year survival rate of early-stage prostate cancer patients is over 99%, and the ten-year survival rate is over 95%. For patients with mid- and late-stage prostate cancer, the five-year survival rate is only about 20%, and the ten-year survival rate will be even lower. Prostate cancer generally develops slowly, and localized tumors rarely cause death within 10 years. However, for tumors with higher Gleason scores and poorer differentiation, the tumor progresses faster and the patient's expected life expectancy may be shorter.

3. The most important issue for prostate cancer patients and their families is how long they can survive in the advanced stage. It is difficult to have a clear answer to the question of how long patients with advanced prostate cancer can survive. The treatment of prostate cancer is a systematic process involving many factors. In general, how long patients with advanced prostate cancer can survive, in other words, how long patients with advanced prostate cancer can survive, mainly depends on whether the treatment method is appropriate and the patient's physical function. Early radical surgery is used for treatment, with a 5-year survival rate of 75%, a 10-year survival rate of 55%, and a 15-year survival rate of 33%; most B1 stage tumors are well differentiated, but 5%-20% of patients are found to have lymph node metastasis during surgery, so radical prostatectomy should be performed, and the 15-year cancer-free survival rate after radical surgery is 50%-70%.