Prostate cancer is not breast cancer

Abstract

Cancers of the prostate and breast are hormone dependent cancers. There is a tendency to equate them and apply same algorithms for treatment. It is pointed out that metastatic prostate cancer with bone-only disease is a potentially fatal condition with a much poorer prognosis than metastatic breast cancer and needs a more aggressive approach.

Keywords

• Bone-only disease
• metastatic prostate cancer
• prognosis