The length of the stay depends first and foremost on whether the surgery was performed via laparotomy or laparoscopy. The former usually requires a stay of a week or more, while patients receiving the latter surgery generally need only about a day or two of hospital recovery.
A prostate surgery, with no complications, will require up to a four day hospital stay. If the procedure was done robotically, the patient is often released within twenty-four hours of the operation. To prepare for the surgery beforehand, the patient is generally asked to not eat the day of the surgery and to drink only clear liquids for a few days before the surgery.
Based on my father's experience, you are typically in the hospital for about a week or 2 since your prostate needs to recover from what they do to your prostate.
If the surgery was successful, then there would be no effect on your life expectancy.
If you have an enlarged prostate, there are several minimally invasive and surgical procedures that could help you. Recovery time is only a few days or up to a week.
The life expectancy with someone with carcinoid lung cancer depends on the stage of the cancer. For people with stage 1, the life expectancy is 93%. For people with stage 5, the life expectancy is 57%.
The life expectancy of someone with spleen cancer is approximately 16 percent. Cancer of the spleen is extremely rare, but has a 86 percent morbidity rate.
There are no current medications to treat prostate cancer, but some good ones are in testing. Current medications only prolong the life by a few months of men with advanced prostate cancer. Currently, prostate cancer is treated by surgery and chemotherapy along with a prostate healthy diet.
In Stage II prostate cancer, the cancer has not yet moved beyond the gland itself. It can still be cured at this point. So it will not affect life expectantcy. With surgery and /or radiation treatment, the chance of curing the disease is very good.
Life expectancy can vary at advanced age the odds are not favorable depending on the stage of the cancer will also need to be factored in to determine life expectancy. Consult a medical professional for more information.
The life expectancy of pancreatic cancer used to be 2 days to 2 months. With recent advances, there are known pancreatic cancer survivors of over ten years.
Life expectancy and the need for treatment after a diagnosis of prostate cancer will depend on whether the cancer has left the prostate gland, the Gleason score of the biopsy, the number of cores that are positive and the percentage of tumor cells in each positive core. Although prostrate cancer is often a more slowly progressing cancer when compared to other cancers, it is still lethal. Second only to lung cancer, it is the largest cancer killer of men with Twenty seven thousand (27,000) dieing this year alone from prostate cancer.
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There are too many factors that determine life expectancy to say.
The life expectancy of small cell lung cancer stage four is 2-4 months without treatment. With treatment, the life expectancy increases to 6-12 months.
This is where the cancer has spread to the bones, resulting in a great deal of pain in most cases. This is usually Stage 5. Death is not far off at this point. With chemotherapy, the person may get 18 to 24 more months of life. Without chemo, an 8 to 9 month life expectancy is all that is left.