Abstract
Prostate cancer screening often detects indolent cancers - defined as those which would never cause morbidity or mortality if left undetected and untreated. Unnecessary treatment of indolent cancer is a problem associated with this 'overdetection'. Active surveillance is a management strategy for low-risk cancers which can decrease the overtreatment burden.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 124-125 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Nature Reviews Urology |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Urology