How long can you live with advanced prostate cancer? This man’s still sailing and skiing 14 years later [Video]

Many people with advanced prostate cancer are living much longer due to new treatments, leading prostate cancer doctors say. Though they’re not often a cure, these innovations are turning a disease once considered a death sentence into a chronic illness that can be managed for years in some patients.

Dr. Laurence Klotz, a urologic oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and chair of prostate cancer research at the Toronto hospital, said patients with metastatic prostate cancer — meaning it’s spread to other parts of the body — live “roughly twice as long now as they did 10 or 15 years ago, which is really a significant achievement.”

“The disease can be controlled, often for a long time — but a cure is generally not in the cards,” Klotz told Dr. Brian Goldman, host of CBC podcast The Dose.

When former U.S. president Joe Biden announced recently that he’d been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate …