Treatment of prostate cancer ‘not understood’

THE largest-ever prostate cancer survivor survey in Ireland has found men are making life-changing decisions without fully realising the severity of the physical and psychological side-effects.

More than half of men diagnosed with the disease found the side-effects to be worse than expected and almost 50% were unprepared for the emotional toll of prostate cancer.

The research, based on the experience of more than 200 men with the disease, was carried out by the Irish Cancer Society ahead of the release of its new Prostate Cancer Patient Charter next month.