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Experts Concerned Men with Prostate Cancer Not Informed of All Treatment Options

Cancer experts and patient advocacy groups are using Men’s Health Week 2017 to highlight the issue that many Australian men diagnosed with prostate cancer are not being fully informed of all available treatment options – especially the alternatives to prostate surgery.

This problem exists in spite of dramatic advances in radiation therapy and a growing body of evidence demonstrating radiation therapy and surgery have equal cure rates and overall similar quality of life.

Read the full press release

Other articles of interest:

When cutting it out might be cutting down your options, Opinion piece by A/Prof Dion Forstner, Radiation Oncologist and Dean of the Faculty of Radiation Oncology for RANZCR

Why I called my prostate cancer surgery off, Opinon piece by ANU Prof David Letts, Prostate Cancer Survivor.