When doctors talk about prostate cancer and forms of treatment for prostate cancer, they often refer to the term active surveillance .
What is it about?
The active surveillance of prostate cancer is the periodic monitoring, through appropriate diagnostic tests, of the neoplasm in question and its evolution over a certain period of time, without resorting to any particular therapeutic treatment.
In other words, it consists only of periodically observing, with the appropriate tests, whether and how the tumor mass formed at the prostatic level evolves.
Clearly, such an approach is possible only when prostate cancer possesses certain characteristics, including: contained measure, slow growth, absence of a particularly annoying symptomatology and null metastasizing power.
In all other situations or upon the occurrence of a sudden worsening of conditions, it is necessary to resort to a specific cure, be it medical or surgical.
