Is prostate cancer curable?
As with all cancers, “cure” rates for prostate cancer describe the percentage of patients likely remaining disease-free for a specific time. In general, the earlier the cancer is caught, the more likely it is for the patient to remain disease-free. Because approximately 90 percent of all prostate cancers are detected in the local and regional stages, the cure rate for prostate cancer is very high – nearly 100 percent of men diagnosed at this stage will be disease-free after five years. By contrast, in the 1970s, only 67 percent of men diagnosed with local or regional prostate cancer were disease-free after five years.
