Varies: From several months to many many many months- will depend on the biology of the cancer, the stage / cancer burdern, treated or untreated?. Overall health condition of the person, other underlying medical problems. Wih available treatmens -i.e. Androgen blocker, abiraterone, provenge, (sipuleucel-t) docetaxel, jevtana and many ohers on development-people w/ metastatic disease can live longer.
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Depends: Men with prostate cancer that has spread can live functional lives for many years. Treatment for metastatic disease is hormone ablation...Therapy that is typically given by injection every 3-4 months to stop the body's production of testosterone (hormone that fuels prostate cancer cells). Other medications and sometimes chemotherapy are used to treat advaced disease as well. See your urologist.
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Variable: Even metastatic prostate cancer growth may be controlled by medication and a person could for a few years, however, metastatic tumors are generally not curable.
Answered 3/17/2013
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