October 2016

Treatment options for men with localized prostate cancer include active surveillance, radical prostatectomy, or external-beam radiotherapy, but in the Prostate Testing for Cancer and Treatment trial each therapy was associated with a low prostate-specific mortality rate of about 1%.

Men with positive needle biopsy for prostate cancer who underwent active surveillance exhibited no difference in quality-of-life compared with men who had a negative prostate needle biopsy.