Title: Low-risk prostate cancer patient: active treatment.
Abstract: We currently lack a prospective, randomized, multicenter trial, to reassure low-risk prostate cancer patients, especially younger ones, that watchful waiting is a legitimate treatment. To better manage these patients, we need to: first, confirm that the patient has low-risk prostate cancer; second, adapt the treatment to the risk (i.e., if therapy is chosen over watchful waiting, it should be monotherapy not multiple therapy); third, be aware of age migration; fourth, know that radical prostatectomy and radiation were shown to be very effective for these patients at 10-year follow-up; and lastly, make an effort to better define watchful waiting and embrace it more, to avoid overtreatment.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['pubmed']
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