{"id":4314,"date":"2016-09-15T13:36:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2016-09-15T13:36:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:36:13","slug":"men-with-early-prostate-cancer-can-safely-opt-out-of-treatment-finds-landmark-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4314","title":{"rendered":"Men with early prostate cancer can safely opt out of treatment, finds landmark study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">M<\/span>en diagnosed with early <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2015\/11\/17\/psa-prostate-cancer-psa-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\">prostate cancer<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> can safely choose active monitoring rather than surgery or radiation without cutting their lives short, according to an eagerly awaited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1606220?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\">landmark study<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup> published on Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/14\/early-prostate-cancer-treatment\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--05goK0ICdTp0LBeVLNNqXK9wpkIu4CB6DPG1GIni6sbu4M6-6osCWRnJ5p410RcaHKc44RbS5si1EMoBZ756c3vvbWw&amp;_hsmi=34362624\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sharon Begley for STAT) Men diagnosed with early prostate cancer1 can safely choose active monitoring rather than surgery or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}