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Delay in surgery not likely to worsen tumors in men with low-risk prostate cancer, study finds
Researchers have found that men enrolled in an active surveillance program for prostate cancer that eventually needed surgery to remove their prostates fared just as well as men who opted to remove the gland immediately, except if a follow-up biopsy during surveillance showed high-grade cancer.
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