Stages of prostate cancer generally divided into four stages, namely:
- Stage A:
Very localized cancer, digital rectal examination or DRE could not find it. - Stage B:
Localized cancer in the prostate gland, while digital rectal method can feel it. - Stage C:
Cancer tissue was to invasion most prostate and penetrated the prostate capsule on the seminal vesicles, bladder neck and cavity perlvis, but there is no distant metastasis. - Stage D:
With metastatic.
Each type of cancer have staging different ways, and each stage has its management algorithm itself. So, the more early stage cancers (mostly stage 1 and 2), the higher the survival rate. For example, cancer A: 1-year survival 90%, 2 years 60% , 5 years 50%, and 10 years 30%. This means that of 100 cancer patients A, which is still alive 90 people in one year, two years 60 people, and 10 years 30 men. That’s why there is no cure rate, if you survive without recurrence for 5 or 10 years, it can be recovered (by a layman of course, not in medicine and statistics). So, in cancer, we’re not talking cure rate, but talking about the survival rate of 1 – 2 – 5 – 10 years, the morbidity (complications from cancer on the body), and recurrence rate.

