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Surgery Favored for Prostate Cancer

May 17, 2005
Scandinavian researchers found that men with prostate cancer under the age of 65 are less likely to die over the long run if they have surgery compared to simply monitoring the disease. What's more, the disease is less likely to spread locally or to distant sites in the body after surgery. Read more about the study in The New England Journal of Medicine.