Positive Surgical Margins at Radical Prostatectomy Predict Prostate Cancer Specific Mortality

Journal of Urology

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2213-2218

  Wright, Jonathan L ^a,b   Dalkin, Bruce L ^a   True, Lawrence D ^a   Ellis, William J ^a   Stanford, Janet L ^b   Lange, Paul H ^a   Lin, Daniel W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

population groups; prostatectomy; prostatic neoplasms; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77951880385     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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