Whether surgery is recommended for prostate cancer in the elderly should be decided according to the stage of the tumor and the physical condition of the elderly.
Surgery can be considered for patients with early stage of prostate cancer in the elderly, limited tumor, no wide spread and metastasis to distant organs and lymph nodes, good physical condition, no serious respiratory failure, no serious liver or renal insufficiency, no cardiac failure and other serious diseases.
However, any surgery will have certain risks, and elderly people with widely spread tumor and poor physical condition will bear more surgical risks, and the probability of postoperative complications will be more and more. Surgical treatment for patients who are not suitable for surgery not only can’t improve the patients’ condition, but also may lead to shortening of the patients’ survival period.
Therefore, elderly people suffering from prostate cancer should go to the hospital in time and decide whether to undergo surgery or not after the doctor’s professional evaluation, and choose the appropriate treatment with the doctor’s help for early treatment.