AMA Study Says Early Radiation May Cure Recurrent Prostate Cancer

An estimated 30,000 men who have had surgery for prostate cancer will relapse this year, and many will not survive. But many of those patients can be saved by radiation treatment (such as proton radiation) at the earliest signs of recurrence. The latest study, published by the American Medical Association, looked at 500 men who were given radiation therapy in lieu of hormones. The new study suggests that many of these men can be cured with early radiation, because the cancer has not spread. On the matter of cancer survivors, the National Cancer Institute estimates that there are now over 9.6 million cancer survivors in the U.S. Some two-thirds of people diagnosed with cancer now live at least five years. That's up from a five-year survival rate of 58.8% in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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