Biggest Study of Prostate Cancer Has Found Standard Surgical Treatment Ineffective

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key point:

But some urologists who have spent years training to perform complex surgical techniques find the idea of watchful waiting unacceptable.

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key point:

But some urologists who have spent years training to perform complex surgical techniques find the idea of watchful waiting unacceptable.

Yes, this is a very important point that shows itself in all aspects of society. From educators, to historians, the religious, and especially to scientists, we've seen that when new evidence appears that shows a group of experts to be totally wrong, they will simply ignore it wholesale.

It turns out that this is the reason behind so many problems we have. We need to be able to accept when we're wrong from a detached perspective. The more we can do that, the more objective we become. That brings us closer to reality.

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Reposting the article originally in the first post. Not sure what happened/that was the craziest night.

It contains important defense information!

independent.co.uk: Study raises doubts over treatment for prostate cancer;
Experts shaken by verdict suggesting thousands of men go through painful treatment for nothing

27 April 2012
Cancer specialists are bracing themselves for publication of a research study that will challenge the way one of the commonest cancers is treated. The world's biggest randomised trial of prostate cancer has found that the standard surgical treatment for the disease is ineffective.

The study compared surgical removal of the prostate gland – radical prostatectomy – with "watchful waiting" (doing nothing). The results show that surgery did not extend life. A leading British specialist, who asked not to be named, said: "The only rational response to these results is, when presented with a patient with prostate cancer, to do nothing."

Cancer of the prostate is the commonest male cancer affecting 37,000 men a year in the UK and causing 10,000 deaths.

But in up to 50 per cent of cases it is slow-growing so that patients affected, even when left untreated, can live for many years and die of something else.

Some specialists are beginning to question whether these cases qualify for the label "cancer" at all.

The results of the Prostate Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT), led by Timothy Wilt and started in 1994 with 731 men, showed that those who underwent the operation had less than a three per cent survival benefit compared with those who had no treatment, after being followed up for 12 years. The difference was not statistically significant and could have arisen by chance.

When the findings were presented at a meeting of the European Association of Urology in Paris in February, attended by 11,000 specialists from around the world, they were greeted with a stunned silence.

One expert who attended the meeting said that while most research results are immediately transmitted by specialists in the audience using social media, "I did not see any urologists enthusiastically tweeting about [this one]."

Prostate cancers are already classified as "tigers" (aggressive) or "pussy cats" (low risk). But some urologists who have spent years training to perform complex surgical techniques find the idea of watchful waiting unacceptable.

Surgery carries a risk of side effects that can have a serious impact on quality of life with 50 per cent of men suffering impotence and 10 per cent incontinence.

msn.com: How Could Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Go Missing For Days?

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After days of speculation, Austin’s doctors revealed that he had undergone surgery for prostate cancer and received additional treatment for an infection following the operation.

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Purge the old fluid out a couple times a week. Doesn't take genius.

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I sit on a 4x6 4,000 gauss magnet when driving. North Pole only though. South Pole is acid forming.

This magnetizes the blood too since a lot flows by this area.