Gleason grade remains an important prognostic predictor in men diagnosed with prostate cancer while on finasteride therapy
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Finasteride and high-grade prostate cancer.
To the Editor: In the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, an increased rate of high-grade cancer was observed in the finasteride group (1). The recently published analysis by Redman et al. (2) suggests that this observation was the result of detection bias rather than a true increase. However, the marked increase in the estimated rate of high-grade cancer in the placebo group calls into question ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BJU International
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1464-4096,1464-410X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2005.05375.x