Monitoring proves better than active treatment for low-risk prostate cancer
Men over 60 with low-risk prostate cancer could spend ten years with no active treatment, have a better sex life as a result, yet still be very unlikely to die from the disease, new research has found.
The findings come from two new studies looking at ‘active surveillance’ of prostate cancer – when the disease is closely monitored but not treated – presented at the 2021 European Association of Urology congress today.