Is it time to walk the line between overtreating indolent disease and undertreating aggressive disease?
Few other health care issues in Australia have been as contentious as the diagnosis and treatment of early prostate cancer. Debate centres on two hotly contested but important issues: do prostate cancers diagnosed by an elevated serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level pose a significant threat to health, and if they do, can intervention alter the natural history of the disease? In this editorial, we consider the contribution that two recently published studies make to this debate, with a focus on survival and the role of surgical management.
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- Department of Urology, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
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