CaP is the 12th most common malignancy, but the most lethal.
When diagnosed it is a systemic disease, as micro
metastasis have disseminated long before tumor detection. Even when CaP is
discovered incidentally survival is limited because of metastases.
Despite public awareness and campaigns to promote early
detection the 5 year survival has improved little since the 1970’s, a period
before body imaging, advanced endoscopy or multi drug systemic therapy was
available.
In England and Wales
between 1971- 1975 the relative 1 year survival for CaP was 6% which increased
to 17.4% between 2005-2009, while during the same time the relative 5 year
survival was 2% and 3.6%.
No comments:
Post a Comment