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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?
Grade group 1
Grade group 2
Grade group 3
Grade group 4
Grade group 5
What are the prognosis and survival rates for prostate cancer?
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Treatment options may include surgery to remove the prostate, radiation therapy or hormone therapy. Hormone therapy is medicine that shuts off your body from making sex hormones called androgens. Androgens encourage cancer cells to multiply. Stopping production of androgens causes the tumor to shrink. Hormone therapy can be used to treat advanced prostate cancer and some early-stage prostate cancers.
