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Arti says:
Patients should be aware that a few cancers are found so early that immediate treatment is not necessary, and these tumors can be monitored closely through an approach called active surveillance — a method we’ve pioneered very successfully here at MSK. But they can control the treatment choices they make. ” It actually means 75 percent of patients will be able to get a functional erection, often with the aid of a pill. I have found that patients often misunderstand the real meaning of percentages doctors give them about the likelihood of recovering their function. Prostate cancer surgery does a fewtimes have a negative impact on these functions, although the likelihood depends on a variety of factors, including age, the extent of the cancer, and baseline function, or how well everything worked before the procedure. A lot of patients interpret that as meaning, “I have a 75 percent chance of returning to my baseline function. But complication rates also go up dramatically when we do surgery on patients who have failed other prostate cancer treatments,
Patients should be aware that a few cancers are found so early that immediate treatment is not necessary, and these tumors can be monitored closely through an approach called active surveillance — a method we’ve pioneered very successfully here at MSK. But they can control the treatment choices they make. ” It actually means 75 percent of patients will be able to get a functional erection, often with the aid of a pill. I have found that patients often misunderstand the real meaning of percentages doctors give them about the likelihood of recovering their function. Prostate cancer surgery does a fewtimes have a negative impact on these functions, although the likelihood depends on a variety of factors, including age, the extent of the cancer, and baseline function, or how well everything worked before the procedure. A lot of patients interpret that as meaning, “I have a 75 percent chance of returning to my baseline function. But complication rates also go up dramatically when we do surgery on patients who have failed other prostate cancer treatments,