Study on Prostate Cancer Treatment Reveals Nothing

Tara Parker-Pope, the delightful health blogger for the New York Times, writes about the latest effort by health professionals to find the best treatment for the more than 200,000  men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. This effort, which analyzed hundreds of previous studies and compared the effectiveness and risks of eight
treatments, ranging from prostate removal to radioactive implants to no
treatment at all, found, well, nothing.
"No one treatment emerged as the best option for prolonging life," writes Parker-Pope. "And it
was impossible to determine whether one treatment had fewer or less
severe side effects."
Read more, and do nothing you might regret.