Test may help show who needs aggressive treatment for prostate cancer
Posted February 3, 2011 7:48 am.
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An experimental test may someday help doctors identify which prostate cancer patients need aggressive treatment.
Currently, once prostate cancer is diagnosed, doctors have no reliable way to know which cases are life-threatening.
So doctors have only a few options: monitor the cancers or recommend immediate treatment, such as surgery or radiation.
Both treatments can cause problems, such as incontinence and impotence.
Doctors at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center in Boston, Mass., have created a test they say might help doctors identify dangerous tumours more accurately than is possible now.
The results of the study were published by the journal, Nature.
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