Why would any healthy person, newly diagnosed with cancer, elect not to undergo curative treatment? Newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients presented with the option of active surveillance often ask ...

Overtreatment of men with prostate cancer and limited life expectancy (LE) has persisted in the era of active surveillance and worsened in some instances, according to a new study. “Overtreatment of ...

An Italian oncologic psychologist warns these patients: “A prostatectomy doesn’t cure anxiety.” Emotional distress can be so ...

At 25 years, the prostate cancer-specific survival rate was 94% among men with screen-detected prostate cancer who chose primary active surveillance – but prostate cancer progression rates are high.

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Prostate MRI currently lacks the accuracy to replace biopsies in active surveillance for prostate cancer. The negative predictive value of MRI remains below 90%, the general goal for safely avoiding ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 66-year-old white male who is active and relatively healthy. I have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer. One blood test showed a PSA level of 13 ng/mL, and a second was ...

Unfortunately, you’re not able to donate blood today. Not until you’re cancer-free for at least a year. Just on the outside ...

Confirmatory or systematic prostate biopsies may be unnecessary for men considering active surveillance for prostate cancer who have negative findings on multiparametric MRI scans. Multiparametric MRI ...

Clinicians must appropriately assess life expectancy and take steps to avoid prostate cancer overtreatment. Even in the active surveillance era, overtreatment persists among men with limited life ...

Outranked only by skin cancer, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men in the U.S. Although one in every eight American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point, an ...

Men's health disease, on prostate cancer or mental illness concept with male patient having consultation with doctor or psychiatrist working on diagnostic examination in medical clinic or hospital ...