The preoperative factors that affect postoperative down staging of locally advanced prostate cancer
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Locally advanced prostate cancer
The management of all stages of prostate cancer is an increasingly complex process and involves a variety of available treatments and many disciplines. Despite prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, the presentation of prostate cancer at a locally advanced stage is common in the UK, accounting for one-third of all new cases. There is no universally accepted definition of locally advanced pros...
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عنوان ژورنال: Urological Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1879-5226
DOI: 10.1016/j.urols.2015.06.212