Thursday, July 18, 2013

Wait-And-See Approach to Prostate Cancer Treatment Receives Support In Study

More Evidence Not All Prostate Cancers Need Treatment by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  July 18, 2013.

Follow the above link to the article, read, and then test yourself with a quiz.

(1)  In the study of older men who died from causes other than prostate, approximate _____________ were found to have prostate tumors, half of which would have qualified ____________.

(2)  The study calls into question current definitions of _______________________.

(3)  The lifetime risk of a man in the United States being diagnosed with prostate  in the United States is  ________% while the risk of dying with prostate cancer is _________%.  This discrepancy suggests that those cancers ____________________________________.

(4)  The Prostate Health Index is a test designed to _________________________.


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