{"id":1357,"date":"2014-04-25T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2014-04-25T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T22:39:30","slug":"when-not-to-treat-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/when-not-to-treat-prostate-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"When not to treat prostate cancer<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115\" alt=\"SMCC-english3\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that in some cases, not treating prostate cancer can increase quality of life for patients and save millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The Quebec-based study found that active surveillance &#8211; watching and waiting &#8211; for five years could save up to $96 million for the health care system while improving quality of life for patients.\u00a0The authors write that many cases of prostate cancer carry a low risk of progressing, and that up to half do not require immediate treatment at the time of diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmajopen.ca\/content\/2\/2\/E60.full\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Canadian Medical Association Journal &#8211; Open<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>April 24, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/ircusm.ca\/web\/research-institute-muhc\/researcher\/-\/asset_publisher\/ID59x2qV9Cu3\/content\/alice-dragomir-msc-phd?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fircusm.ca%2Fweb%2Fresearch-institute-muhc%2Fresearcher%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_ID59x2qV9Cu3%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-3%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D2\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Dragomir<\/a>, McGill University, Quebec<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study suggests that in some cases, not treating prostate cancer can increase quality of life for patients and save millions of dollars. The Quebec-based study found that active surveillance &#8211; watching and waiting &#8211; for five years could save up to $96 million for the health care system while improving quality of life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[49,1272,51,53,849,1271],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cancer","tag-economics","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-quebec-en","tag-treatment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-lT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}