Prostate cancer treatment 'not always needed'
Just keeping an eye on prostate cancer results in the same 10-year survival rate as treating it, a study suggests.
The UK researchers warned too many men were having procedures that damaged their sex life and caused incontinence.
A trial of 1,643 men with small prostate cancers resulted in the same 99% survival rate after a decade for those who had had surgery, radiotherapy or simply monitored the tumour.
Experts said the results were "extremely reassuring" for men.
"It's a global problem that patients are over-treated," Prof Freddie Hamdy from the University of Oxford, told the BBC.
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