Watchful waiting should be the first step in treatment, and medication a last resort.
In these cases, doctors often recommend "watchful waiting" rather than treating with surgery or radiotherapy.
One example: Surgery instead of "watchful waiting" for 70-year-old men with new prostate cancer diagnoses.
Surgeons end up recommending surgery, radiation specialists radiation, still others "watchful waiting, " etc.
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Dr. Kapoor said more than 80% of those patients suffered from intermediate to high-risk cancer, justifying more aggressive treatment, and all were offered and declined watchful waiting.
Sixteen of the men had untreated prostate cancer, they were in the so-called "watchful waiting" group - where the cancer is slow-growing and causing no symptoms.
Their advanced age makes them far likelier to die from other causes, so the course of action typically recommended for them is watchful waiting or, sometimes, hormone therapy.
Many patients opt for "watchful waiting", monitoring the cancer.
My answer is a kind of watchful waiting.
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As 11 of the 24 men with prostate cancer had died, the authors suggest that early radical treatment for the disease might be offered to men who carry the genetic mutation, rather than watchful waiting, which is common policy.
Just as some pharmas may be relieved they resisted investing in the first round of stem cell technologies, for instance, they might be similarly inclined to adopt a watchful waiting posture, and give the field some time to settle out.
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