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Many have low distress during prostate cancer surveillance

According to research published in the May issue of The Journal of Urology, men with low-risk prostate cancer on active surveillance generally have favorably low anxiety and distress in the first nine months of surveillance.

Researchers of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands found that anxiety and distress at nine months were largely predicted by scores at inclusion, and that men with a less neurotic personality and good physical health tend to do best psychologically during surveillance.

Another article in the same issue examines how health status and life expectancy influenced selection of men age 75 and older for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screenings before the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended against screening them.