Background Total or whole prostate gland treatment for a localised prostate cancer (particularly after the radical surgery/robotic prostatectomy) is associated with: > significant complications > insignificant numbers of lives saved > gross overtreatment especially for the favorable-risk Gleason 6 (3+3) prostate cancer which is commonly, not a health risk. Warnings to the public and physicians […]
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BAD SURGERY
Books have been written about bad medicine, bad pharma and also, bad surgery. > bad surgery is surgery which is unneeded, > bad surgery is one where there is clear overtreatment,F > bad surgery is one where surgical principles fall well below accepted standards, > bad surgery is one where there is no validating scientific […]
Does Prostate Cancer Need Treatment?
The majority of prostate cancers are low or favorable-risk Gleason 3+3 cancers. > 75% of all prostate cancers fall into this category, > these prostate cancers are particularly slow growing, and are NOT a great risk. > their average cell doubling time is in the order of 475 days or so, > at this rate […]