Or watchful waiting - an approach often taken with older men with slow-growing tumors?

An acoustic neuroma is a slow-growing tumor of the nerve that connects the ear to the brain.

People with small, slow-growing tumors may not need treatment.

It can also indicate the presence of very small, slow-growing tumors that are unlikely to threaten a man's health during his remaining years of life.

Visual pathway glioma is a rare, slow-growing tumor of the eye.

A few patients have very slow-growing tumors and may live several years.

While many doctors assume those therapies improve survival, studies to assess their effects, particularly with early, slow-growing tumors, are still going on, he said.

Schwannomas are slow-growing benign tumors that only rarely undergo malignant change.

Prostate cancer is a slow-growing tumor in older men.

But we are not good at moving against the creeping, more insidious threats - whether a slow-growing tumor, waistline or debt.