'It will allow a lot of men to sleep better at night.' 9News
diagnosis is scary. It's so scary that some US doctors are saying it's time to rename low-grade prostate cancer to eliminate the alarming C-word.
Others agree. "If you reduce anxiety, you'll reduce overtreatment," said Dr. David Penson of Vanderbilt University. "The word 'cancer,' it puts an idea in their head: 'I have to have this treated'." Often, doctors offer patients with the lowest score — Gleason 6 — a way to avoid surgery and radiation: active surveillance, which involves close monitoring but no immediate treatment.This 1974 microscope image made available by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows changes in cells indicative of adenocarcinoma of the prostate.
But Dr. Joel Nelson of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, said dropping the word "cancer" would "misinform patients by telling them there's nothing wrong".
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