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Prostate disease and the pharmaceutical industry
Prostate Cancer
Current treatments
The treatment options available for prostate cancer are listed
above and the doctor will need to assess many different factors
in recommending the best treatment for any given person. It
is important to recognise that all the methods have advantages
and disadvantages.
The importance of the pros and cons will vary with age and
health and with the stage the cancer has reached. A major
operation such as radical prostatectomy would be risky for
a man in his late 70s. By contrast, watchful waiting would
be acceptable in an elderly person with a slow-growing tumour
or one who has other illnesses, but less so for an otherwise
fit younger man.
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