And if you find yourself in the percentage of men destined to fight this
illness, take comfort in knowing that prostate cancer survivors enjoy a
relatively high survival rate, due to the nature of its slow growth. For all
stages of diagnosis, the 10-year survival rate is 86%, and the 15-year survival
rate is 56% (ACS Cancer Facts and Figures, 2004). And there’s no reason why you
can’t be the guy who beats it and lives to be 100.