Most prostate cancer specialists don't recommend active surveillance for low-risk patients
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 13:50
in Health & Medicine
Specialists who treat prostate cancer agree that active surveillance is an effective option -— yet most don't recommend it when appropriate for their own patients, according to a study. Rather, urologists are more likely to recommend surgery and radiation oncologists are more likely to recommend radiation therapy -- the treatments provided by their own specialties.