Report: Some Men Treated Too Aggressively For Prostate Cancer
(Chicago, IL) -- Many men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer are treated too aggressively. That's the finding of researchers at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey. A report published in the "Archives of Internal Medicine" says while just two-point-four-percent of men diagnosed with prostate cancer probably have a high-grade cancer, more than 82-percent receive aggressive treatment including complete prostate removal. That's about two-million men. The researchers say a current push to reduce the threshold for what is considered an abnormal prostate would add to the number of men being overtreated for a cancer that may never harm them. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men, behind lung cancer. The disease kills about 254-thousand men worldwide each year.< |