Many prostate cancers don't need radical therapy
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Important news for men with prostate cancer: first, the cancer tends to grow so slowly that only a fraction of patients actually die from it. Second, men with low-grade cancer who opt for close monitoring instead of surgery to remove the prostate do not seem to suffer anxiety and distress from living with ''untreated'' cancer. Those are the take-home messages of two studies appearing in medical journals this week.
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56R6DY20090728
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