don’t want to control cancer by watching it grow; better to get rid of it period. One aspect of medicine’s attitude toward prostate cancer is to be too benign toward it. It’s generally said that it’s so slow growing that a man is virtually guaranteed five years of life after its discovery. And this is the basis of “active surveillance.” The problem with the approach is that the man continues aging toward that time when he’ll be told that he’s just too old for the surgery. Foolish to settle for the “five years” while it progresses to that stage that guarantees a horrible and painful death.
“don’t want to control cancer by watching it grow; better to get rid of it period. One aspect of medicine’s attitude toward prostate cancer is to be too benign toward it. It’s generally said that it’s so slow growing that a man is virtually guaranteed five years of life after its discovery. And this is the basis of “active surveillance.” The problem with the approach is that the man continues aging toward that time when he’ll be told that he’s just too old for the surgery. Foolish to settle for the “five years” while it progresses to that stage that guarantees a horrible and painful death.”
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