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UofM Study: Prostate Cancer Treatment Often Too Aggressive ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - A new University of Michigan study finds many prostate cancer patients are being treated too aggressively by their doctors.

The study suggests often patients sacrifice their quality of life in exchange for no real health benefit.

As part of the study, U of M researchers tracked 64 thousand prostate cancer patients. Dr. David Miller says they found that doctors and patients were just as willing to pursue surgery and radiation treatments in low risk prostate cancer cases as they would for high risk cases.

Miller says taking a wait and see approach is probably better when treating older men and others not battling aggressive prostate cancers.

The study's findings appear in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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