Watchful waiting/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Watchful waiting.

Active monitoring of a disease, but with no more than symptomatic treatment, based on the chance the disease will either be self-limiting, or will not progress quickly enough to justify potentially hazardous disease-modifying treatment