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Does saturation biopsy improve prostate cancer detection?

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boxed-textJones JS et al. (2006) Saturation technique does not improve cancer detection as an initial prostate biopsy strategy. J Urol 175: 485–488

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    Kihyuck Moon & Dan Theodorescu

  2. Paul Mellon Professor of Urologic Oncology and Molecular Physiology and the Director of the Paul Mellon Prostate Cancer Institute, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Moon, K., Theodorescu, D. Does saturation biopsy improve prostate cancer detection?. Nat Rev Urol 3, 468–469 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0552

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