Does a delay in initiating definitive therapy affect biochemical recurrence rates in men with clinically localized prostate cancer?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-200

  Phillips, Joseph J ^a   Hall, M Craig ^b   Lee, W Robert ^c   Clark, Peter E ^d  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Piedmont Urological Associates   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay; Prostate; Prostate neoplasms; Prostatectomy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECURRENCE RISK; THERAPY DELAY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34247605604     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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