What are the chances of PC recurrance if the margins are clear?

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/10088.cfm

Someone here provided this link before. Might help. My urologist felt the Sloan Kettering numbers are a bit optimistic.

Thank you for your responses. I found an article with a calculator that seems to be inconsistent with the about mentioned calculators. Perhaps I'm misreading something which is very possible.

The site is: http://www.aafp.org/afp/20051215/poc.html. If the article doesn't come up, enter "prostate recurrence" into the search field. Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

AEG

AEG,

Most of the calculators are comprised of all patients with a wide gaps in pathology, presentation and so on. Most are pretty conservative I think also. about the best one I have found is the charts from the JH and company study I refer to above. The study does in fact, use the chart I saw in your aafp.org site. along with other gathered data from multiple cancer centers arond the country over a long period of time. Its a great article but takes a few slow reads to comprehend clearly.

If you're looking for another place to gather abstract (or purchasable articles) info, you can go to Entrez PubMed, go to urology then to PCa. Be careful....there are thousands of studies abstracted. Sometimes it's okay to just let life happen too so don't stress yourself too much!

As for preventative. Prayer, excersise and a healthy, balanced diet are your best prevention measures. Keeping the belly fat off does more than reduce our pant size...it prevents many common illness, including those that can be affected by too much estrodiol over long periods...like PCa. Life Extension has many, many great evidence based studies on supplements and such. You might actually enjoy the site....."enjoy" being the key word here :>) Look for something called Modified Citrus Pectin. It may be something you'll find interesting. Indole Carbinole 3/DIM is popular among naturalpaths also...both of which our homeopath Physician suggested for my DH. Happy reading and above all.....relax a little :>)

Swim