Watchful Waiting Works for Older Men With Prostate Cancer

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More definitive information about watchful waiting versus treatment of prostate cancers is expected from a study recently started in Canada and now being done in medical centers there and in the United States, Greenberg said. But results of that study are not expected for at least 10 years, he noted, and meanwhile men and their doctors need to make treatment decisions based on each man's characteristics.

"We need to individualize these decisions, even in the elderly," Sanda said.

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Learn about prostate cancer from the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

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