[Mortality due to prostatic carcinoma in northern Sweden]

Urologe A. 1996 Nov;35(6):443-5. doi: 10.1007/s001200050048.
[Article in German]

Abstract

In a retrospective study 6890 patients with prostate cancer from the North Swedish Cancer Register were analyzed according to cancer specific survival. Prostate cancer mortality was 40% in patients with well differentiated cancers, 54% in patients with moderate differentiated prostate cancer and 72% in men with low differentiated prostate cancer. Prostate cancer mortality was 80% in men younger than 60 years, 63% in men 60-69 years old, 53% in men 70-79 years old and 49% in men older than 80 years.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Cause of Death*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Prostate / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / mortality*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Survival Analysis
  • Sweden / epidemiology