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2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   After surgery or radiation therapy, PSA may start to rise again, which is called biochemical recurrence if a certain threshold is met in PSA levels (typically 0.1 or 0.2 ng/ml for surgery). At 10 years of follow-up after surgery, there is an overall risk of biochemical recurrence of 30–50%, depending on the initial risk state, and salvage ...

3. Prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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   Prostatectomy (from the Greek προστάτης prostátēs, "prostate" and ἐκτομή ektomē, "excision") is the surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland. This operation is done for benign conditions that cause urinary retention, as well as for prostate cancer and for other cancers of the pelvis .

4. Radical perineal prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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   The procedure was first performed on a 70-year old married preacher on 7 April 1904 by American surgeon Hugh H. Young and assisted by William S. Halstead, as a way of removing the prostate in cancer treatment, after prostatic massage and an early type of transurethral resection of the prostate had failed to relieve him of pain in his urethra. [8]

5. This Unexpected Pain Is a Common Sign of Prostate Cancer ...

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   What Else To Know About Bone Pain and Prostate Cancer 1. It's new or worsening. Dr. Phillips explains that the pain is generally new and worsening and often appears in the back, ribs or joints. Dr.

6. Alonzo Mourning had surgery to remove prostate following ...

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   It's "rare" for men less than 40 years old to have prostate cancer, but the chance of having the disease "rises rapidly" after 50 years of age. Roughly six in 10 prostate cancer diagnoses take ...

7. Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy - Wikipedia

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   There was a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology from Harvard [3] using a national random sample of Medicare patients, showing that patients who had a laparoscopic/robotic radical prostatectomy underwent hormonal therapy in more than 25% of cases after the procedure compared to an open radical prostatectomy [this is usually not necessary ...