Cancer‐Control Outcomes of Japanese Vs. German Metastatic Hormone‐Sensitive Prostate Cancer Patients: A Real‐World Cross‐Country Comparison of Patients Undergoing Combination Therapies
Mike Wenzel, Keiichiro Miyajima, Maximilian Filzmayer, Axel S Merseburger, Carolin Siech, Benedikt Lauer, Felix K‐H Chun, Shin Koike, Yoichiro Tohi, Takafumi Yanagisawa, Kojiro Tashiro, Takahiro Kimura, Fumihiko Urabe, Philipp Mandel · 2026
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Mike Wenzel and co-authors wrote a study from 2026 comparing prostate cancer outcomes between Japan and Germany. The patients all had cancer that had spread but still answered to hormone treatment, and all received modern combination therapy. Tumor biology, treatment habits, and health systems differ between the two countries. The team pooled two national databases covering a decade of care.
More than twelve hundred patients entered the pool. Japanese patients were older and arrived with far higher marker levels and more widespread disease. Yet their cancer took much longer to turn resistant, and they lived notably longer on median. After adjustment for the starting gaps, the Japanese advantage held at about half the risk. Matching checks confirmed the split. The team reads the gap as a mix of biology, treatment strategy, and system design, not severity alone.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mike Wenzel, Keiichiro Miyajima, Maximilian Filzmayer, Axel S Merseburger, Carolin Siech, Benedikt Lauer, Felix K‐H Chun, Shin Koike, Yoichiro Tohi, Takafumi Yanagisawa, Kojiro Tashiro, Takahiro Kimura, Fumihiko Urabe, Philipp Mandel |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |