Cancer Radiation Rates Grow When Urologists Reap Profit
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Urologists that buy their own equipment to provide expensive radiation treatment are much more probable to use it to treat prostate cancer even when its benefit for patients is unclear, research shows.
Prostate cancer is the most common tumor diagnosed in the U.S., where an estimated 238,590 men were told they had the disease this year. While only about 12 percent, or 29,270 men, will die from it this year, all will have to decide how, and whether, they want to treat the cancer.