Older Men Increasingly Overtreated for Prostate Cancer, Study Suggests

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Overtreatment of older prostate cancer patients with a limited life expectancy has increased over the past two decades among men receiving care in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health system, researchers found. From 2000 to 2019, their observational cohort study showed the rate of aggressive treatment increased by an absolute 23% among men with an estimated […]

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Publish date : 2024-11-11 22:06:13

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