The debate with prostate cancer

To treat or not to treat, that is the ongoing debate over how the medical community should handle older men diagnosed with prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in U.S. men, behind lung cancer.

Most recently, UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that men over age 75 were under-treated for prostate cancer though most had a life expectancy of at least 10 years, while others who had other health problems, such as heart disease or diabetes, were over-treated and doing more poorly than expected.