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Prostate cancer treatment needs to get more personalized

(By Brian Helfand for STAT)

As a group, men who choose not to treat their early-stage prostate cancer aren’t any more likely1 to die from the disease within 10 years as men who choose treatment with surgery or radiation, which often come with potentially life-changing side effects. That’s the main finding of a landmark trial published recently2 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading article here……

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