Does prostate cancer treatment help older, sick men?

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate removal or radiation, and they’d have to live with their side effects, says a new study. “If you’re going to die of a heart attack in five years, what’s the point of going through radiation?” asked Dr. David Penson, the study’s senior author from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. …