Private practice experience with radical surgical treatment of cancer of prostate

This private practice series of 255 men with adenocarcinoma of the prostate was evaluated with regard to the efficacy of radical prostatectomy in controlling disease. Sixty-seven men underwent radical surgery: 77 per cent are surviving longer than ten years post-operatively with several of these individuals now in their fifteenth year, 9 per cent died of their disease, and 10 per cent are totally incontinent. The survival in this series are compared with those of other series and the differences discussed.