Men increasingly have choices if their cancer is found at an early stage, as most cases in the U.S. are. "The reality is, if you have a low-risk cancer, like the study shows, you don't need treatment, certainly not urgently. Fewer men died in the surgery group, but the difference was small enough that it could have been due to chance. In one quarter of those cases, men "just got fed up'' with monitoring and thinking about cancer, Andriole said. The numbers were 5 percent and 4 percent, respectively, of men assigned to observation.

Source: Economic Times July 13, 2017 10:30 UTC