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 ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men but often goes unnoticed. Experts stress early screening, awareness ...

Active surveillance includes monitoring but only proceeding with treatment if the cancer becomes more aggressive.

I was one in eight. One in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Nah, I was one in six. One in ...

Prostate cancer is the most common solid malignancy among men in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 313,780 men nationwide will be diagnosed with the disease in ...

Prostate MRI currently lacks the accuracy to replace biopsies in active surveillance for prostate cancer. The negative predictive value of MRI remains below 90%, the general goal for safely avoiding ...

Men’s Health Thailand by Dr. Niti Navanimitkul For many men, a diagnosis of prostate cancer comes with two major worries: ...

An experimental urine test can detect aggressive prostate cancers in men on active surveillance, potentially sparing them from repeated biopsies, researchers reported on Friday. The MPS2-AS test is ...

“The general population’s risk goes up from the age of 50, but if you are one of the men at higher risk of prostate cancer – either because you are a black man, or because you have close relatives who ...

Despite technologic advances and guideline recommendations, prostate MRI still lacks the accuracy to replace biopsies in active surveillance, data on almost 2,000 patients suggested. MRI had a 75% ...

Patient survey finds that those engaged in shared decision-making were 11 times more likely to report higher satisfaction with their treatments, with 90% of lung cancer patients in Japan wanting to pl ...