Hb. Heidenberg et al., CLINICALLY DETECTED CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE TREATED BY RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY IN A 29-YEAR-OLD MAN, The Journal of urology, 152(3), 1994, pp. 966-967
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.