STEP 5

Research Clinical Trials

So far the evidence hadn’t favored surgery or radiotherapy in a definitive way. Plus, the cure rates for localized disease seemed to be about 90% for both.

In general, clinical trials may be of more interest to patients for whom the conventional cure rates are poor. But, to be thorough, I did searches for clinical trials for patients with stage 2 prostate cancer.

Here is the data I entered at the NIH www.cancer.gov site