Table of Cure Rates:
Cure of prostate cancer: what treatment is all about
There are 10 different ways to treat localized prostate cancer. Table 1 provides overall cure rates according to the 10 different treatment methods. Overall cure rate is the 10-year cure rate for all men (typically 1,000 or more), regardless of PSA, prostate biopsy pathology report findings or other medical data.
The purpose of Table 1 is to give men an apples-to-apples comparison of cure rates with a standard definition of cure, PSA cutpoint 0.2 ng/ml. To be cured of prostate cancer by any treatment, your PSA must become undetectable, which means it must fall to PSA 0.2 ng/ml or lower after treatment and remain at PSA 0.2 ng/ml forever, which is measured 10 years after treatment.1 Table 1 shows the percentage of men, by treatment method, who have PSA 0.2 ng/ml or lower 10 years after treatment. For example, if 100 men are treated with ProstRcision, 83 will have PSA 0.2 ng/ml or lower 10 years later. The cure rates in Table 1 are from peer-reviewed prostate cancer research papers published in medical journals. If research papers were not calculated with PSA 0.2 ng/ml, the results were converted to this PSA level. More details on the 10 treatment methods are described in Questions 59–117.
The two methods with the highest cure rate for prostate cancer are ProstRcision and radical prostatectomy. Surgery and ProstRcision are both used for men with early and intermediate cancer, but ProstRcision is also used for advanced cancer. To give an equal comparison, Table 1 shows the cure rate of ProstRcision for early and intermediate cancers only, which is 88%, compared with 76-80% with surgery.
