Non-metastatic prostate cancer: rationale for conservative treatment and impact on disease-related morbidity and mortality in the elderly.

Conclusions: Our study demonstrated systematic undertreatment of elderly patients with aggressive, non-metastatic PC with regard to local treatment based on chronological age alone. The patients in this study died of prostate cancer and the majority experienced significant morbidity caused by local tumor growth. PMID: 32133899 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133899?dopt=Abstract

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Urology - March 6, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Scand J Urol Source Type: research