Transrectal High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer: Current Role
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Transrectal High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound for the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer: Current Role
Over the past 25 years, the average life expectancy for men has increased by 4 years, and the age of prostate cancer detection has decreased an average of 10 years with diagnosis increasingly made at early-stage disease where curative therapy is possible. These changing trends in the age and extent of malignancy at diagnosis have revealed limitations in conventional curative therapies for prost...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cancer Therapy
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2151-1934,2151-1942
DOI: 10.4236/jct.2013.44a007