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Understanding Your Prostate
What Your Test Results Mean
Treatment Choices
Intro
Watchful Wating
Surgery
Radiation
Comparing Treatment Choices
Comparing Side Effects
Newer Treatments
Things to Ask Your Doctor
After Your Treatment
Education and Support Groups
A Choice and A Journey
 
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Treatment Choices : Watchful Waiting

What happens

  • With watchful waiting you do not start active treatment yet.
  • You and your doctor watch for signs that the cancer may be changing, growing or spreading.
    - You have regular doctor visits and examinations.
    - You keep getting tested. You will have tests like the ones you have already had.

To see pictures of how watchful waiting works, please see page 4.


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“When the doctor told me that I could choose watchful waiting, I thought maybe he didn’t want to take care of me. But that’s not what he meant at all.

He meant he would keep a close watch on my cancer to make sure it wasn’t growing or spreading. It’s a wait and see approach. I had to decide if this was for me.”