Early stage prostate cancer - Do we have a problem with over-detection, overtreatment or both?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1061-1062

  Carroll, Peter M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ALGORITHM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 15044357091     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ju.0000156838.67623.10     Document Type: Editorial

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