Among a wave of recent studies suggesting that prostate cancer is vastly overtreated, comes a new look from Sweden, indicating that for men under the age of 65, surgery could increase chances of survival by 38 percent over those go with watchful waiting. US News & World Report reports that researchers at University Hospital in Uppsala studied 700 men with early prostate cancer under the age of 75 who were randomly selected either to undergo a radical prostatectomy or to stay in “watchful waiting” mode. After 13 years, 14.6 percent of the men who had undergone surgery had died, versus 20.7 percent in the watchful waiting group, a 38 percent reduced risk. The benefit was primarily seen among men younger than 65 and the authors estimated that seven men under the age of 65 and 8 over the age of 65 would need to be treated to save one life.
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