Men with prostate cancer can live long lives without surgery

Men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer will probably live a full and long life without needing surgery. Only those who have very aggressive cancers should consider a radical prostatectomy, say researchers from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Those diagnosed with the cancer can expect to live for at least a further 15 years, especially if the cancer is slow-growing, without needing to have any treatment, according to a Journal of Clinical Oncology study of 12,677 men.