African Americans May Need Aggressive Prostate Cancer Treatment

African Americans May Need Aggressive Prostate Cancer Treatment
Kristen Zeis/The Virginian-Pilot via AP

Recently, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggested that outcomes of prostate cancer patients who underwent aggressive treatment were no different than those who chose the so-called “watchful waiting” approach for this typically slow-growing cancer.

While those results may be true for patients in general, African-American men might choose the more aggressive approach.



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