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Gleason score grading for prostate cancer
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What is the Gleason score?
Where does the Gleason score come from?
What are the grades of prostate cancer?
How is the Gleason score calculated?
What are the grade groups?
What does each grade group mean?
Why do two grade groups have the same Gleason score?
What's the difference between grading and staging?
How is prostate cancer treated by grade group?
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What are the prognosis and survival rates for prostate cancer?
What is the Gleason score?
Where does the Gleason score come from?
What are the grades of prostate cancer?
How is the Gleason score calculated?
What are the grade groups?
What does each grade group mean?
Why do two grade groups have the same Gleason score?
What's the difference between grading and staging?
How is prostate cancer treated by grade group?
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Grade group 2
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What are the prognosis and survival rates for prostate cancer?
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The lowest level of prostate cancer is very slow growing. It typically is not treated. This helps you avoid treatment you don't need and possible side effects. Instead, your healthcare team monitors the cancer during regular visits, usually every few months. This is known as active surveillance.
Regular visits may include a PSA blood test, a digital rectal exam, imaging tests or a prostate biopsy. The goal of active surveillance is to catch the cancer at the earliest stage of advancing and treat it at that time. Watchful waiting is similar to active surveillance but with fewer tests. It's typically an option for people who have poor health.
In some people, surgery to remove the prostate or radiation therapy may be options.
