Men can take their time to decide on prostate cancer treatment
Is it safe to wait to make a decision about having prostate cancer surgery, even after you’ve waited and waited for all the doctor appointments and test results? Or will the additional delay reduce your chances of being cured? Reassuring research says that men can take the time they need to make their decisions, reports the February 2008 issue of Harvard Men’s Health Watch.
One study evaluated men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer who elected to have surgery. The men were divided into groups based on the amount of time that had elapsed between their diagnostic biopsies and their operations. The shortest period was 15 days, and the longest was 520 days. There was no correlation between the interval between biopsy and surgery and the risk of recurrence.
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