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Options for low-risk prostate cancer – 1
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. An independent panel at the NIH has concluded that patients with low-risk prostate cancer should be offered the option of active surveillance.
Ganz: We feel confident that in the very low-risk patients that this is a reasonable thing to offer men when they are being told that they have this diagnosis.
Narrator: Panel chairperson Dr. Patricia Ganz is from UCLA. She explains that more men are being diagnosed with very low-risk, slow-growing prostate cancer and may not choose surgery or radiation immediately, but want to be followed.
Ganz: And if at some time their disease pattern changes, they would like to then go ahead with active treatment at that time.
Narrator: For details, visit the website consensus.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the NIH, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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