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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/choosing-treatments-for-prostate-cancer/">Prostate Cancer: “Which treatment is the right treatment?”</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 13, 2007 at 08:47 AM by Jessica Galvano</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">With various treatment options including “watchful waiting”, hormone therapy, radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery, many men are anxious to know which of these methods will be most effective in a battle against prostate cancer. Although decision factors account for a patients’ age, quality of health, and stage of the cancer, a recent study has discovered the predominant determinant: oncology or urology. In a collaborative effort, Dr. Thomas Jang (urologist) and Dr. Justin Bekelman (oncologist) of New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center have established a correlation between the type of specialist seen and a patients’ chosen treatment plan. The urologist-oncologist team studied more than 85,000 men with prostate cancer over an eight-year period. For men over 65 that received treatment without consulting an oncologist, nearly 70% opted for a surgical procedure. The overwhelming coincidence of urologist-based advice and surgery contrasted sharply…<a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/choosing-treatments-for-prostate-cancer/">(<a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/choosing-treatments-for-prostate-cancer/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/choosing-treatments-for-prostate-cancer/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/comment/choosing-treatments-for-prostate-cancer/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.hesfit.com/men/archive/category/his-health/">his-health</a><br /><br /> </P>