If your cancer is not causing any symptoms, is growing slowly, or is small and only in your prostate, your physician may suggest active surveillance or watchful waiting instead of treatment. Active ...

Although about 1 in 8 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, only about 1 in 44 will die from it. Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer die from other causes, ...

Patients with favorable-risk prostate cancer “should be aware that they don't need treatment right away,” one expert said. Active surveillance has been shown to be an effective management strategy for ...

Half of men with low-risk prostate cancer remained free from progression or treatment 10 years after diagnosis when followed in a protocol-directed active surveillance program. At 10 years, 43% of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Urologists more often recommend active surveillance over treatment for low-risk prostate cancer. Patients’ ...

Advances in technology have made active surveillance in men with prostate cancer possible and prevented treatment for men who don’t need it, said Matthew Nielsen, MD, FACS, chair, Department of ...

Protocol-directed prostate cancer active surveillance offers acceptable oncologic safety. Protocol-directed active surveillance of localized prostate cancer reduces unnecessary treatment of men ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Men with low-risk prostate cancer may be safely followed with active surveillance only. Certain men with ...

Study shows boosting diet with supplements could halt prostate tumour growth and help men avoid unnecessary surgery, chemo or ...

A diet rich in vegetables and probiotics could help slow the growth of low-risk prostate cancer, a new study suggests. Researchers found that specially designed supplements and probiotics appeared to ...

Prostate cancer comes in all kinds of varieties, from serious and life-threatening cases all the way to the more common, nonaggressive forms that are typically age related. The disease tends to occur ...