CLINICALLY DETECTED CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE TREATED BY RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY IN A 29-YEAR-OLD MAN

Prostate cancer is rare in young adults and when clinically detected i t has been invariably locally or distantly advanced, undifferentiated and exhibiting aggressive behavior. To our knowledge no previous repor t documents clinically detected and localized disease amenable to cura tive surgery in a young adult. We report on a 29-year-old man with cli nically detected, moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma of the pros tate who was treated by nerve sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy . The patient was disease-free and morbidity-free 30 months after trea tment.