Many men with lower life expectancy and localized prostate cancer get overtreated. Rates of definitive treatment have increased for men with intermediate-risk and high-risk disease. Perspective ...

but why wait to consider life expectancy until after a prostate cancer diagnosis?" Schoenborn and Walter asked. "Life ...

For men with high-risk prostate cancer and a five-year life expectancy, treatment rose from ... bleeding and rectal bleeding during or shortly after the treatment. Those are the basics.