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Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
Wednesday Aug 08, 2018
January 2011 Author in the Room® Teleconference
Author: Julia Howell Hayes, MD
Summary Points:
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Active surveillance is a reasonable approach to consider for carefully selected 65-year-old men with low-risk clinically localized prostate cancer, providing improved quality of life even if associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer-specific death.
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The results depend on patient preferences.
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It is crucial that individual patients make this decision in conjunction with their doctors.
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