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Warning to follow up small prostate cancers properly

Dr Declan Murphy

Monash University’s Dr Declan Murphy Source: Supplied

Researchers have found men with small prostate cancers are not always being properly monitored. Men who do not require surgery for prostate cancer are put on a surveillance program where they are meant to be checked by their clinicians with blood tests and biopsies. But research at Melbourne's Monash University has found almost three in four men with small or slow-growing prostate cancers are not properly monitored


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Researchers have found men with small prostate cancers are not always being properly monitored. Men who do not require surgery for prostate cancer are put on a surveillance program where they are meant to be checked by their clinicians with blood tests and biopsies. But research at Melbourne's Monash University has found almost three in four men with small or slow-growing prostate cancers are not properly monitored



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