Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many men with lower life expectancy and localized prostate cancer get overtreated. Rates of definitive treatment ...

Overtreatment of older prostate cancer patients with a limited life expectancy has increased over the past two decades among men receiving care in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, researchers ...

Dr. William Russell specializes in radiation oncology in Baton Rouge. He graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1984. Russell is double-board certified in internal medicine ...

New research in JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network finds that for people diagnosed with nonmetastatic low-risk prostate cancer later in life, and treated according to NCCN ...

Overtreatment of men with prostate cancer and limited life expectancy (LE) has persisted in the era of active surveillance and worsened in some instances, according to a new study. “Overtreatment of ...

Risk of death and cause of death 30 years after diagnosis as a proportion of 100 men. Grey figures indicate the proportion of men alive after 30 years, blue figures the proportion of men who died of ...

Patients with nonmetastatic prostate cancer are more likely to die from other causes than from cancer when treated per guidelines. The 15-year cancer mortality risk is 5.5% for low-risk and 22% for ...

There are around 46,000 new cases of prostate cancer each year in England and Wales, with 13% of these cases showing signs of ...