Re:Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads
by GeekyBear on Thursday February 13, 2025 @01:18PM
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Your grandfather's take has become increasingly accepted for prostate cancer. There is more of a watch and see attitude to make sure that the patient doesn't have a rare case of aggressive growth.
As you mentioned, the outcomes aren't significantly different, regardless of how you treat it.
From the article linked above:
> Researchers followed more than 1,600 men with localized prostate cancer who, from 1999 to 2009, received what they called active monitoring, a prostatectomy or radiation with hormone therapy.
Over an exceptionally long follow-up averaging 15 years, fewer than 3 percent of the men, whose average age at diagnosis was 62, had died of prostate cancer. The differences between the three treatment groups were not statistically significant.
As you mentioned, the outcomes aren't significantly different, regardless of how you treat it.
From the article linked above:
> Researchers followed more than 1,600 men with localized prostate cancer who, from 1999 to 2009, received what they called active monitoring, a prostatectomy or radiation with hormone therapy.
Over an exceptionally long follow-up averaging 15 years, fewer than 3 percent of the men, whose average age at diagnosis was 62, had died of prostate cancer. The differences between the three treatment groups were not statistically significant.