A new study at the Center for Outcomes Research at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston revealed that more than a third of prostate cancer patients may receive treatments that are inappropriate because of problems they are already having with urinary, bowel or sexual function.
These mismatches might occur, either because male patients are hesitant and don’t give enough information to their doctor or because their doctor like to recommend a particular type of treatment.
The prostate cancer treatments include external radiation therapy; brachytherapy and the surgical removal of the prostate gland. But the best treatment for an individual patient depends on several factors such as stage at which the cancer is diagnosed, age of the patient, and existing problems with urinary, bowel or sexual function that the patient has.
According to the report in the Nov. 26 online edition of Cancer., treating patients who already have problems in these areas with a procedure that could exacerbate their problem is usually not recommended.
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