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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) prostate cancer database found that among men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer (based on pathology and a PSA level lower than 20 ng/mL), active surveillance or watchful waiting increased overall from 5% in 2010 to 12.3% and 6.1%, respectively).

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

We discussed what makes an illness terminal, what goes into assessing capacity for an action as simple as requesting something to drink, and whether the TV show Severance illuminates any of these answers. But before we talk about this subject, about nutrition, hydration at the end of life, people with advanced illness, or maybe not so much.

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