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11/13/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

More harm than good: Most men are better off NOT treating prostate cancer — most tumors will not cause harm

We’ve all heard that early detection is vital for many medical conditions, but when it comes to prostate cancer, an Oxford academic has claimed that thousands of men who have the illness would actually be better off if they had never been diagnosed. According to Professor Freddie Hamdy, many men with slow-growing tumors that hadn’t […]

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