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No risk seen from delaying prostate cancer surgery

A new study in Sweden finds that patients who delayed surgery by over a year had similar outcomes as those who opted for immediate treatment.

Using a national cancer database, Swedish researchers found that among 2,566 men with cancer confined to the prostate gland, there was no evidence that men who delayed surgery were in worse shape once they did have the procedure.

Their tumors, on average, were no more likely to have extended beyond the prostate or have abnormalities that indicate a more aggressive cancer than men who had surgery soon after diagnosis.

Moreover, their long-term survival was nearly the same, according to the study findings published in the Journal of Urology.