Are educated prostate cancer patients too smart for their own good?

A fascinating paper has just been published in BJU International suggesting that, “Higher education, income and functional capacity were associated with” poorer knowledge about their cancer, poorer understanding about treatment choices, and poorer judgement about survival with and without treatment among a group of 184 patients recently diagnosed with localized prostate cancer.

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