Definition: Recurrence refers to cancer that has returned after initial treatment. Prostate cancer can recur locally (meaning it has returned in the area surrounding the prostate) or it can recur distantly (meaning in the bones or other tissues elsewhere in the body).
Recurrence - Definition of Recurrence
By Matthew Schmitz, M.D., About.com
Updated: February 20, 2009
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