Changing Trends in Surgical Management of Prostate Cancer: The End of Overtreatment?

European Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 175-178

  Huland, Hartwig ^a   Graefen, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Overdiagnosis; Overtreatment; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; KALLIKREIN; KALLIKREIN-RELATED PEPTIDASE 3, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOW RISK PATIENT; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REGIONALIZATION; AGED; BLOOD; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; WATCHFUL WAITING;

AGED; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GERMANY; HUMANS; KALLIKREINS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL OVERUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84937513357     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2015.02.020     Document Type: Article

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