Watchful waiting is a strategy that healthcare professionals use to closely monitor a condition’s progression rather than treating it immediately. Doctors often recommend it when the risks of ...

Researchers implemented a quality improvement project to increase watchful waiting for acute otitis media in an emergency department setting. The following article is part of coverage from the ...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Autopsy studies show that by age 30–39, approximately 29% of men have microscopic evidence of disease, which increases to approximately 65% by age 70.

In 2002, we reported the initial results of a trial comparing radical prostatectomy with watchful waiting in the management of early prostate cancer. After three more years of follow-up, we report ...

Between 1989 and 1999, we randomly assigned 695 men with early prostate cancer to watchful waiting or radical prostatectomy and followed them through the end of 2012. The primary end points in the ...