To print: Select File and then Print from your browser's menu

Title: High Cure Rate By Radical Prostatectomy For Prostate Cancer

URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=synergy&
&synergyAction=showAbstract&doi=10.1046/j.1525-1411.2001.32001.x

The Prostate Journal 2001;3(2):118. "Intermediate-Term Outcome with Radical Prostatectomy for Localized Prostate Cancer: The Cleveland Clinic Experience"
03/15/2002 10:15:17 AM
By Robert Short

Carefully selected patients who have localised prostate cancer and are treated by radical prostatectomy have a high rate of cure. Researchers in the United States studied 906 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy for localised prostate cancer between 1990 and 1999. They aimed to determine the five-year and eight-year disease-specific and biochemical relapse-free survival, and the variables that predict biochemical failure. They found that 43 percent of patients had extension of the disease outside the capsule, 44 percent had pathologic Gleason scores

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=synergy&
&synergyAction=showAbstract&doi=10.1046/j.1525-1411.2001.32001.x

Copyright © 2009 P\S\L Consulting Group Inc. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of P\S\L content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of P\S\L. P\S\L shall not be liable for any errors, omissions or delays in this content or any other content on its sites, newsletters or other publications, nor for any decisions or actions taken in reliance on such content.