{"id":4532,"date":"2016-10-02T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2016-09-30T10:21:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T14:21:53","slug":"prostate-cancer-treatment-needs-to-get-more-personalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4532","title":{"rendered":"Prostate cancer treatment needs to get more personalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Brian Helfand for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">A<\/span>s a group, men who choose not to treat their early-stage prostate cancer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/14\/early-prostate-cancer-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\">aren\u2019t any more likely<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">1<\/sup> 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\u2019s the main finding of a landmark trial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1606220?query=featured_home\" target=\"_blank\">published recently<\/a><sup class=\"footnote\">2<\/sup> in the New England Journal of Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/09\/30\/prostate-cancer-personalized-medicine\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8KmHzTXGK6K09NHfhhIvV2K7PDq_r_h8JuEoandCDMUHw5cMu2UUZgmBRFCcwRc3YbQSe2pSqLzQgVdOP26MNksitLTQ&amp;_hsmi=35153165\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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 Brian Helfand for STAT) As a group, men who choose not to treat their early-stage prostate cancer aren\u2019t any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4533,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}