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Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer: NICE Clarification Boosts NHS Treatment Options
July 8th, 2008
Physician experts at the British Association of Urological Surgeons' (BAUS) annual meeting this week heard how discussions with NICE have opened the way for patients with prostate cancer to have continued access to cryotherapy - a promising therapy threatened by earlier NICE guidance published in February. At a session discussing the NICE Clinical Guideline on Prostate Cancer, urologists reiterated their concern that its recommendations will harm survival rates. In the UK, prostate cancer survival rates are below the European average. The NICE Guideline advocates greater reliance on active surveillance and recommended that newer treatments such as...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-08)
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