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A comparison of treatment strategies for stage T4 prostate cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Urology volume 3, page 403 (2006)Cite this article

Johnstone PAS et al. (2006) Radical prostatectomy for clinical T4 prostate cancer. Cancer 106: 2603–2609

Newly diagnosed clinical stage T4 (cT4) prostate cancer is rare, and there is a corresponding lack of data on the efficacy of the various treatment strategies. Johnstone et al. have published an analysis of data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database, which compared the survival of patients with cT4 prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy (alone or in combination with another therapy), radiotherapy, hormone therapy, radiotherapy plus hormone therapy, or no treatment at all.

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A comparison of treatment strategies for stage T4 prostate cancer. Nat Rev Urol 3, 403 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0541

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