http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Long-term survival rates for patients with advanced prostate cancer suggest they can be good candidates for surgery, Mayo Clinic researchers have found. Their study found a 20-year survival rate for 80 percent of patients diagnosed with cancer that has potentially spread beyond the prostate, known as cT3 prostate cancer, and treated with radical prostatectomy, or surgery to remove the prostate gland. Previously, patients found to have cT3 prostate cancer were offered radiation or hormone treatment, but not radical prostatectomy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-advanced-stage-prostate-cancer-patients-year.html Cancer Sun, 15 May 2011 13:28:31 EST news224684805