Team Approach Urged in Prostate Cancer Treatment
Team Approach Urged in Prostate Cancer Treatment An estimated 230,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005 – enough to fill a baseball stadium four or five times. But research shows that a partner’s involvement in health care decisions is positively associated with better outcomes for prostate cancer patients. Ali Torre, wife of legendary baseball manager and prostate cancer survivor Joe Torre, knows firsthand the important role that family members play in helping a person with prostate cancer make treatment decisions. “I learned through my husband’s experience with prostate cancer that assembling a multidisciplinary team of medical...