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‘Watchful waiting’ may be option for some men

Recent years are overwhelmed whether doctors are treating prostate cancer when they don’t need to. In some cases, doctors use “watchful waiting” to monitor patients to see if signs of prostate cancer worsen.

A recent research is offering more light into the value of closely monitoring patients who appear to have low-risk forms of prostate cancer instead of immediately treating them.In another study, researchers from San Francisco analyzed the safety and value of monitoring in a group of 477 men, most of whom had been diagnosed with low-risk disease at about 62 years of age.

The findings are scheduled to be presented Tuesday at the American Urological Association annual meeting in San Francisco.