Prostate Cancer Patients Should Continue To Look Out For Other Illnesses, Study

A new study at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, found that the excellent survival of older men with early-stage, low- to moderate-grade prostate cancer, along with the patterns of causes of death, implies that prostate cancer patients would be well served by an ongoing focus on screening and prevention of cardiovascular disease and other cancers. Dr James S. Goodwin and colleagues, concluded that more often they will die of other disease, just like men without prostate cancer.

This work is published in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Goodwin and colleagues wrote that older men with early stage prostate cancer should continue to maintain focus on “screening and prevention of cardiovascular disease and other cancers”.