The Prostate Lab www.prostatelab.com
"Focused on the Prostate since 1996"
The Watchful Waiting (WW) Page (also the Wont Watch, Don't Wanna Know Page)
Most men who receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer will die of other causes. The greatest risk that PCa presents to these men is that they will be treated for it. Unfortunately, it is usually difficult to know if a particular man is best served by WW at the time he is offered this choice. Damn!
The decision to WW depends upon our hypothetical person asking two difficult questions:
1- Are my personal statistics and the nature of my tumor such that I can successfully WW?
2- Do I have the balls to do WW? (This does not imply that those that who choose not to WW don't have the guts to do such; they may simply have the brains to believe that they are better off with other options).
How to understand and play the game -- by Lorenzo Q. Squarf
Why is the Prostate Cancer Mortality Rate Dropping?
Watchful Waiting - Is it Rational (Tepperman, 1998)
Conservative treatment of prostate cancer (Albertson, 1995)
Is prostate cancer screening cost-effective? (Cantor, 1995)
A letter from a former President of the British Urological Association ( J.C. Smith, 1998)