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Prostate cancer does not always require treatment

vrach i pacientUrologists have come to the conclusion that with non-aggressive prostate cancer men not taking a big risk in terms of the appearance of metastases.

Researchers in Baltimore analyzed data from more than 1200 men who have this disease. The results showed the following.

Of all the participants died from prostate cancer, only two, only three appeared metastases within 15 years. It turns out that not all men with prostate cancer need treatment.

But the cancer treatment carries many side effects, surgical intervention is also does not go unnoticed.

A biopsy is advisable to conduct annual only men at risk, other patients shown by MRI.