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So, survival rate and life expectancy for stage 4 prostate cancer cannot be favorable. âº The five-year relative survival rate for prostate cancer that has spread to distant organs is 28%. This means about 28% of the patients with stage 4 prostate cancer will live for five years.
Now imagine that the same group is diagnosed with prostate cancer by PSA tests earlier, at age 60, but they all still die at age 70.. If the patients in the second group lived to the age of 65, their five-year survival rate would be 100 percent, although they all died by age 70. Even though the survival rate has changed dramatically, nothing has changed about the time of death, the report notes.