Surgery or radiation doubles the life expectancy of men with aggressive prostate cancer, a study released Friday in New York said. Researchers said that many men with aggressive prostate cancer are told that their disease is untreatable. But the study by New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center found that patients with the most aggressive form of non-metastatic prostate cancer who underwent either surgery or radiation had a life expectancy of more than 14 years, compared to those who had more conservative treatment, whose life expectancy was less than seven years.
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