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The study, done by the Lancet Commission, suggests cases will rise from 1.4 million in 2020 to 2.9 million in 2040.
Dr. Ricardo Rendon says in 2023, there were 790 new prostate cancer diagnoses in Nova Scotia. - Contributed However, a followup study in Europe revealed that screening makes a difference — a 21 per cent improvement in survival. He said Nova Scotia has also moved away from open surgery to robotic surgery, which allows for more precision and a faster recovery for patients. “Before when a patient had advanced prostate cancer, the treatment was by taking away their testosterone, their male hormone, because that’s sort of the food for prostate cancer, and then the prostate cancer shrunk but eventually started to grow again,” he explained.
He explained that once patients are treated, they can and should go back to their primary care physician for followup. “Some of these systems that have been created, like Maple and other systems, they’re really not for day-to-day management of heart issues or previous cancers, so it’s clogging our system dramatically because we cannot discharge our patients.”
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