By the way, doctor: Is 60 too old to be treated for prostate cancer?
At the same time, treatments for prostate cancer — surgery, radiation, chemotherapy — can cause harmful side effects like an inability to control urination (urinary incontinence) and erectile dysfunction. No one wants the treatment to be worse than the disease, and that's much more likely to happen if the potential of harm from a disease is low.
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