Advanced Prostate Cancer Life Expectancy

Many people do not know what to expect when they get prostate cancer and so they ended up with opposing views, especially when going forward. There are those who finally made a terrible mistake because they do not really know, when it comes to this deadly disease.

Advanced Prostate Cancer life expectancy can vary from person to person based on the merits of individual cases. Typically, doctors are not very interested in the disclosure of such information for fear that it could affect their patients in the physiological and psychological level, but know that usually the question that patients who most need the answers, they are often forced to speculate.

But how much speculation is really in it? Late stage or advanced prostate cancer is not considered a cure for the most part, though still very treatable. Usually the doctor offers the best palliative care that they have access in order to improve the quality of life of patients. Palliative treatment for advanced stages of the condition of focusing on extending life and relieving the symptoms of the disease.


Significant pain in one or more bones may indicate the occurrence of metastases (spread of the disease). Chronic pain occurs mostfrequently in the spine and sometimes flares in the pelvis, lower back, hips, or the bones of the upper leg. This may be accompaniedby a significant weight loss.

After being diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, many men who say that their illnesses were treated and that a less aggressive treatment is best. Life expectancy is often placed at somewhere between five and eight years with watchful waiting or even some rather aggressive form of prostate cancer treatment.


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