Early closure of a randomized controlled trial of three treatment approaches to early localised prostate cancer: The MRC PR06 trial [3]

BJU International

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1400-1401

  Ritchie, A ^a   Verbaeys, A ^a   Fellows, G ^a   Hehir, M ^a   Mason, M ^a   Moffat, L ^a   Whillis, D ^a   Harrison, M ^a   Jones, D ^a   Littler, J ^a   Noble, D ^a   Srinivasan, V ^a   Suresh, ^a   Trask, C ^a   Shearer, Robert ^b   Fayers, Peter ^a   Parmar, Mahesh ^a   Sydes, Matthew ^a   Duffy, Alison ^a   Bliss, Judith ^a   Earl, Helena ^a   Harper, Peter ^a   more..

^a Royal Marsden Hospital ^*

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 19944414612     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2004.05224_3.x     Document Type: Letter

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