"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
The two studies are in The New England Journal of Medicine this morning. They’re both from Sweden. They both compare “watchful waiting” of prostate cancer to radical prostatectomy. One looks at mortality, the other at
quality of life. Overall mortality was the same, regardless of the approach, although more men died of prostate cancer in the watchful waiting group. Quality of life was the same in both groups, too, although there was a higher incidence of impotence in the radical prostatectomy group. Looks like it’s a toss-up. posted by Sydney on
9/12/2002 08:52:00 AM
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