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Many Prostate Cancers Will Not Need Treatment PDF Print E-mail

(SOURCES: Feb. 12, 2008, teleconference with Grace Lu-Yau, Ph.D., cancer epidemiologist, Cancer Institute of New Jersey and associate professor, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and School of Public Health, and Bruce Trock, M.D., associate professor, urology, epidemiology, oncology and environmental health sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore)

 

 

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- One of the largest studies of its kind concludes that most older men with early prostate cancer do not shorten their survival odds if they adopt a "wait-and-see" approach to the disease.

 

In fact, most such patients will die of other causes or they simply won't develop any complications from the cancer, the researchers found.

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