Time, Symptom Burden, Androgen Deprivation, and Self-Assessed Quality of Life after Radical Prostatectomy or Watchful Waiting: The Randomized Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group Study Number 4 (SPCG-4) Clinical Trial

European Urology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 422-432

  Johansson, Eva ^a   Bill Axelson, Anna ^a,c   Holmberg, Lars ^b   Onelöv, Erik ^c   Johansson, Jan Erik ^d   Steineck, Gunnar ^c,e  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androgen deprivation; Castration; Prostate cancer; Quality of life; Radical prostatectomy; Randomized trial; Symptom burden; Watchful waiting

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; WELLBEING;

AGED; ANDROGENS; BIOPSY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57649222331     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2008.08.054     Document Type: Article

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