Mental Distress: Prostate Cancer's 'Elephant in the Room'
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Many men have taken to calling this state of limbo "anxious surveillance" – a baseline level of concern that gets worse while they await the results of periodic blood tests that, depending on the results, can signal the need for surgery or radiation therapy to remove a tumor that's become more aggressive.
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@gursharan Mental distress has been called the "elephant in the room" for patients with prostate cancer that doesn't require treatment right away. For years, these concerns were largely ignored, according to advocates and health professionals.