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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of men with prostate cancer facing unnecessary overtreatment, experts warn Up to 5,000 men every year could be facing ...

About 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime. But a new study concludes an increasing number of men with limited life expectancy are being overtreated for the disease with procedures ...

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 ...

From 2010 to 2024, the rate of surgeries declined more than fivefold in patients with pathologic grade group 1 (pGG1) prostate cancer, a cohort study found. The small proportion that were performed ...

Dr. Nicholas James discusses why it is important to identify which patients with high-risk prostate cancer will truly benefit from intensified treatment. It is important to target intensified therapy ...

It does if a single state in the U.S. is any indication. In North Carolina, significantly higher rates of prostate cancer recurrence were reported among men living in rural areas compared to their ...

Overtreatment of older prostate cancer patients with a limited life expectancy has increased over the past two decades among men receiving care in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, researchers ...

Up to 5,000 men a year could avoid potentially harmful treatment for prostate cancer if ‘outdated’ guidelines reflected the latest evidence, a charity has said. Closely monitoring the disease with ...

Prostate cancer screening compares favourably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing ...