How much longer can my dad live with Prostate Cancer?
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 at
2:02 am
So my dad is in his 60’s and he has prostate cancer and he has been going in for treatment. What I would like to know is if someone has prostate cancer can you live while undergoing treatment or will it kill you overtime while going in for treatment? If you have prostate cancer how long can you normally live?
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If prostate cancer is caught early enough (which it normally is), there is a high likelihood that your father will pass away from something else. Especially if he has had treatment. Sometimes, not all that often, there is a type of prostate cancer that is hormone refractory and will not respond to radiation or the hormone therapy. This is the kind that will get out of control fairly quickly.
If he is undergoing treatment, I assume you mean radiation therapy and/or hormone therapy? As long as he is getting treatment, has routine PSA checks and stays on top of his follow-up, he should be okay from the prostate cancer standpoint.
Good luck to him with his treatments! Hope everything turns out okay.
ther is a very high survival rate as long as it was caught early
it all depends on how aggressive the cancer is and whether or not it was caught in time.. if the cancer is caught in time, the person can expect to have a normal life expectancy. men who get prostate cancer
in the late 70’s or early 80’s, generally have the slow growing kind that is easily treated. if your
dad’s prostate hasn’t spread, i would have the prostate surgically removed with the da vinci robotic
surgery system. men who have robotic surgery retain their sexual function 96% of the time
versus 60-80% of the time with conventional surgery.
My Grandfather had prostate cancer at 76.. he went in for treatment and over a year later he still has a clean bill of health. granted he is very healthy besides. He still exercises and weighs what he weighed in high school. As long as it isn’t aggressive and he is fairly healthy besides he should be ok.
My father HAD prostate cancer, it is gone now! It really depends how high his score is. My father’s was pretty high, so he had his prostate removed, then he went for radiation therapy for about 7 weeks. Now he no longer has cancer. I’m hoping that he will live for at least another 40-50 years. By the way, he is 68 years old now. Good Luck!!
My father was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer (meaning it had already spread) in May of 2000. Even with prostate cancer that already spread, he still lived another 7 & 1/2 years…and fairly normally until his last few months. Sadly, he lost his battle with cancer on Jan. 4th, 2008.
My friend’s dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer right about the same time as my dad. Her dad’s cancer had NOT spread. He had surgery to remove his prostate and is healthy as a horse to this day.
It really doesn’t have much to do with how early it is caught it has more to do how aggressive it is, which you can tell by the Gleason score and somewhat by his PSA. Prostate cancers are usually slow growing and many men die from other causes.