Paolo Dell’Oglio, MD, of the Urological Research Institute, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffele in Milan, Italy, was the study’s leading physician. Dr. Dell’Oglio and colleagues studied 600 men aged 59 years or younger.
Here are five key points:
1. Researchers found the 10-, 15- and 20-year cancer-specific mortality rates were 11.6 percent, 15.5. percent and 13.5. percent, respectively.
2. The 10-, 15- and 20-year other-cause mortality rates were 5.5 percent, 13.5 percent and 19.3 percent respectively.
3. Dr. Dell’Oglio’s team determined the five-year probability of CSM and OCM among patients who survived five, 10 and 15 years after surgery was 6.4 percent and 2.7 percent versus 4.6 percent and 9.6 percent versus 4.2 percent and 8.2 percent, respectively.
4. Major determinants of CSM included year of surgery, pathologic stage and Gleason score, surgical margin status and lymph node invasion.
5. PCa is the leading cause of death during the first 10 years of post-RP survivorship.
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