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Father has prostate cancer on outside of prostate. is it serious to have that. did test cancer was not in blader. what's best treatmnt is it curable?
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It depends: on how far outside of the prostate the cancer has spread. Some prostate cancers are slow growing. There are many treatment options that include radiation, chemotherapy and or surgery
Answered 11/21/2014
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