Hormone therapy rates no different than ‘watchful waiting’ in prostate cancer
Advanced Prostate Cancer wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
A lot of doctors give androgen deprivation therapy without any evidence that it’s a good thing for early-stage prostate cancer. One of the reasons we’re in such a quagmire on prostate cancer is so many doctors have practiced medicine not supporting the clinical trials but just treating it the way they think they ought to be treating it. A recent study suggests thatthis increasingly common therapy used for localized prostate cancer may not bestow any survival benefits on the patient beyond thos
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