Your grandfather's take has become increasingly accepted for prostate cancer. There is more of a watch and see attitude to make sure that the patient doesn't ha

Your grandfather's take has become increasingly accepted for prostate cancer. There is more of a watch and see attitude to make sure that the patient doesn't have a rare case of aggressive growth. As you mentioned, the outcomes aren't significantly different, regardless of how you treat it. From the article linked above: > Researchers followed more than 1,600 men with localized prostate cancer who, from 1999 to 2009, received what they called active monitoring, a prostatectomy or radiation with hormone therapy. Over an exceptionally long follow-up averaging 15 years, fewer than 3 percent of the men, whose average age at diagnosis was 62, had died of prostate cancer. The differences between the three treatment groups were not statistically significant.