The long-term quality of life of men who have survived prostate cancer varies significantly depending on the main treatment they received, a new Irish study has found.
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in men. Every year in Ireland, over 2,000 men are newly diagnosed with the disease and currently, there are more men living with this type of cancer than any other.
Researchers from the National Cancer Registry (NCR) and the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry carried out a study(the PiCTure study Prostate Cancer Treatment, your experience) involving almost 3,400 men who were between two and 18 years post-diagnosis.
This is one of the largest population-based studies of prostate cancer survivors ever carried out globally.
The study found that participants who had received just hormone therapy, or hormone therapy in conjunction with radiotherapy, had a much lower HRQoL than those who had received a radical prostatectomy - an operation to remove the prostate gland and some of the tissue around it.
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