Prostate cancer: Reducing overtreatment: Active surveillance in low-risk disease

Jared M Whitson; Sima P. Porten; Peter R. Carroll

doi:10.1038/nrurol.2011.8

Prostate cancer: Reducing overtreatment: Active surveillance in low-risk disease

Jared M Whitson, Sima P. Porten, Peter R. Carroll

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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)
Pages (from-to)	124-125
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Reviews Urology
Volume	8
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2011.8
State	Published - Apr 2011
Externally published	Yes

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Urology

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