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Need help when prostate surgery fails and the cancer has spread how long will i live?
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Many years: Prostate cancer is a relatively slow growing disease. Patients can live many years with control of their disease with testosterone lowering drugs. There are many additional drugs- both hormonal and chemotherapy drugs that have shown to prolong life
Answered 5/22/2017
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