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[News] Patients Who Refuse Prostate Cancer Surgery Have Worse Long-Term Survival, Study Find


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Patients Who Refuse Prostate Cancer Surgery Have Worse Long-Term Survival, Study Finds

 

ScienceDaily (June 1, 2010) — Men who refuse surgery for prostate cancer and instead opt for "watchful waiting" -- monitoring cancer progression without undergoing treatment -- have a significantly worse long-term survival rate than those patients that choose radiotherapy, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

 

Patients who refuse prostate cancer surgery have worse long-term survival, study finds

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