Apparently big news--NCCN approves AS for favorable intermediates

The plot thickens...

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/857151#vp_1

halbert, FYI Medscape subscriptions are free.

But this article is simply an article about the newly revised NCCN guidelines which were announced here at HW/PC in this thread: 2016 NCCN Prostate Cancer Physician Guidelines

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=35&m=3563824

No worries, JockMT


The NCCN Guidelines are slow to change, but the inclusion of many 3+4 men (their other case characteristics also need to be considered) in AS programs has been going on for a number of years. There's also been recent expansion, in some programs, of men with PSAs up to 20 ng/mL...again, based also on other case characteristics.


Perhaps more than anything, the NCCN's 3+4 change helps clearly show that men who opted for surgery and were upgraded to 3+4 really shouldn't worry at all...in most cases they would have still been eligible for AS!!!