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Where are all the people on Active Surveillance (AS)?
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Every urolgist/oncologist tells you after biopsy report that the actual grade and stage can be confirmed only after post surgical patholgy. So I dont understand how based on Biopsy results AS is offered/accepted?
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Go to ancan.org And find out when they’re having their next active surveillance meeting. Attend the meeting and listen to people who have it and the person that’s running it ask them about the questions you have. Many people in active surveillance, go for many years and decades without having prostate cancer show up. Others do become cancerous, but they find out because they get tested every year.
I hear from these people all the time and many of them go decades without treatment being necessary.
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Well, it does work for the vast majority of people that are on active surveillance. Sure, some of them eventually get prostate cancer, but the thing is when you’re on active surveillance you need to get tested every year.