Effects of Pathologic Stage on the Learning Curve for Radical Prostatectomy: Evidence That Recurrence in Organ-Confined Cancer Is Largely Related to Inadequate Surgical Technique

European Urology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 960-966

  Vickers, Andrew J ^a   Bianco, Fernando J ^a   Gonen, Mithat ^a   Cronin, Angel M ^a   Eastham, James A ^a   Schrag, Deborah ^a   Klein, Eric A ^b   Reuther, Alwyn M ^b   Kattan, Michael W ^b   Pontes, J Edson ^c   Scardino, Peter T ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Prostate cancer; Surgical learning curve

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 41149146540     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.01.005     Document Type: Article

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