Prostate surgery claims misleading

Anonymous User writes "This article
relates the findings of Bradley Hennenfent, M.D., author of the new book, "Surviving Prostate Cancer Without Surgery."

His studies show that the claims that prostate removal surgeries have a high rate of success are based on biased and misinformed analysis of medical studies. These reports come from doctors with an interest in surgeries and uneducated members of the media.

Success rates for radical prostate removal are in fact low and even lower than alternative methods of treating prostate cancer, and have severe side effects such as sterility, impotence, incontinence, and reduction in penis size to name a few. Do your homework before letting a doctor tell you how to make a decision so critical to a man's life, one that effects so many men."

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