Long term survival results in advanced prostate cancer treated with combined androgen blockade / 中华男科学杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To understand long-term survival rate after combined androgen blockade (CAB) in patients with advanced prostate cancer.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>A selected population of 59 patients with advanced prostate cancer were treated with CAB. 28.81% (17/59) of patients had clinical locally advanced disease (stage T3-4N0M0), and 45.76% (27/59) of patients had metastatic disease (stage TxNxM+). Overall, patients were followed for a median of 62 (range 6-136) months.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Of the 59 patients with advanced prostate cancer, 3-year, 5-year and 7-year overall survival rates were 79.36%, 61.46% and 49.15%, respectively. The 5-year survival rate were 80.77% and 32.65% for clinical locally advanced disease and metastatic disease. Specifically, men with poorly differentiated prostate cancer had a 5-year survival of only 30% when compared with men with well-differentiated prostate disease who had a 5-year survival of 86.21%.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>Based on these findings, men with poorly differentiated cancer, stage T3c-4NxMx or TxNxM+ and PSA level above 30 microg/L had a high probability of dying from their advanced prostate cancer.</p>