recurring or advanced prostate cancer. It’s a matter of treating a deadly disease versus the risk of developing a non-life-threatening condition,” Kavaler said.
“How do you ask somebody to choose between losing your mind or not treating their high-risk disease,” she said. “It’s a hard position to put a patient in. I wouldn’t even bring it up.”
The findings were presented at the American Urological Association annual meeting, in Chicago. Research presented at meetings should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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SOURCES: Karl Tully, M.D., research fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston; Elizabeth Kavaler, M.D., urology specialist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; May 5, 2019, presentation, American Urological Association, Chicago