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Study Looks At Quality of Life Five Years After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
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Five years after prostate cancer diagnosis, patients treated with radical
prostatectomy continue to experience worse urinary incontinence and erectile
dysfunction compared with those treated with radiotherapy. However, patients
in both groups have similar overall sexual function, mostly because of
declining function among radiotherapy patients between 2 and 5 years after
diagnosis, according to a new study in the September 15 issue of the
Journal of the