Compare Prostate Cancer Treatments – Intermediate Risk

Who Remained Prostate Cancer Free?

Intermediate Risk patients experience a wider range of results and approaches due to the risk of disease beyond the prostate. When selecting a course of action, consultations are recommended with a urologist or surgeon, radiation oncologist and medical oncologist. Different treatments have different results and side effects. It is important to understand the potential impact each treatment can have on your quality of life after treatment.

Intermediate Risk patients are at a higher risk for cancer relapse or recurrence than Low Risk patients. That means patients in this risk group are more likely to have their cancer return following initial treatment, which may require additional treatment.  To understand how effective the treatment or combination of treatments, are in keeping patients in remission, Doctors perform periodic monitoring or testing PSA levels, following treatment. It is very unlikely that the cancer will ever return, if you remain in remission for 10-15 years after prostate cancer treatment. Click on 'Get the Study', to obtain your copy of Foundation's work. Share this Study with your Doctor as you select your treatment plan.

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Intermediate Risk is any of the following:

PSA greater than 10 less than 20

Gleason Score is 7

Clinical Stage is T2b

  HIFU
  Cryo
  Protons
  Seeds
  EBRT
  HDR
  Seeds ADT









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HIGH RISK

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How to Use the Graph
Add or remove treatment options above, using the checkboxes, for example Surgery vs Seeds. Percent PSA Progression Free is represented by the the vertical axis. The bottom axis of the graph tracking time in years, in this case up to 16 years. Circles, triangles, diamonds or squares on the graph each represent a treatment study with a different number of patients. The midpoint of the ellipse shows on average how the patients responded to a that treatment. The direction of the ellipse, shows how the patients trended over time.
About the Data
Percent PSA Progression Free control results are the most sensitive means to measure initial treatment success and are used in these comparisons. A PSA Progression Free of 100% would mean that for all patients, the cancer has not returned, and no follow up treatment was necessary. These graphs are cancer control probabilities and not survival graphs. Survival in all groups is high regardless of treatment, as patients can often live for years despite failure of the initial treatment. Cancer control is the focus of this analysis. The longer a treatment can maintain a PSA Progression Free close to 100%, the more effective the Treatment. Each treatment ellipse is mathematically calculated to help you visualize how the patients are doing with the selected treatment.

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Compare Prostate Cancer Treatment Tutorial

This tutorial will lead you through the process of comparing prostate cancer treatment outcomes across low, intermediate and high risk patients. The treatments included in this study are Prostate Surgery or Prostatectomy, (Retropubic, Laparoscopic, and Robotic), Brachytherapy or Seeds, High Dose Rate Radiation, HDR, External Beam Radiation Therapy or EBRT, Androgen Deprivation Therapy, ADT, or Hormone Treatment, Proton Therapy, High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound, HIFU, Cryotherapy, Cryo and Hypo-Fractionated External Beam Radiation Therapy. For more advanced prostate cancer, treatments are combined to increase effectiveness. 

Remission versus Recurrence?

Relapse of prostate cancer is way more common than you might think. Many men treated for prostate cancer have their cancer return, which can lead to a lifetime of treatment. Prostate Cancer Free studies treatment outcomes documented in "The STUDY", recently updated for 2021. Take this Study to your doctor, and discuss your chance of cancer recurrence. The Study is available with the new, just released booklet, to help you learn about prostate cancer. Both the Prostate Cancer Free Study and the booklet, “What You Need to Know About Prostate Cancer” are available NOW for you to VIEW, PRINT or DOWNLOAD.

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