Study shows monitoring can be the best treatment for men with prostate cancer of low-risk type
June 26th, 2010 Posted in watchful waitingAccording to a study now being published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, monitoring can be the best treatment for men with prostate cancer of the low-risk type.
How local prostate cancer, that is, cancer that has not spread outside the prostate gland, should be treated is a controversial issue. In many cases such tumors grow only very slowly, and one treatment strategy is to monitor them rather than to actively intervene directly.