Perspectives on the clinical management of localized prostate cancer

If cure is necessary, is it possible and if cure is possible, is it necessary?’ -Willet F. Whitmore Defined broadly, prostate cancer has two states: An indolent histological manifestation of a locally proliferative and invasive process or a clinically relevant, potentially lethal disease. Likewise,...

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Autor principal: Nelson, Joel B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4104072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24589461
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.123672
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description If cure is necessary, is it possible and if cure is possible, is it necessary?’ -Willet F. Whitmore Defined broadly, prostate cancer has two states: An indolent histological manifestation of a locally proliferative and invasive process or a clinically relevant, potentially lethal disease. Likewise, the management of clinically localized prostate cancer must address two questions: what sort of disease is this and what needs to be done.
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spelling pubmed-41040722014-07-29 Perspectives on the clinical management of localized prostate cancer Nelson, Joel B Asian J Androl Invited Opinion If cure is necessary, is it possible and if cure is possible, is it necessary?’ -Willet F. Whitmore Defined broadly, prostate cancer has two states: An indolent histological manifestation of a locally proliferative and invasive process or a clinically relevant, potentially lethal disease. Likewise, the management of clinically localized prostate cancer must address two questions: what sort of disease is this and what needs to be done. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 2014-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4104072/ /pubmed/24589461 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1008-682X.123672 Text en Copyright: © Asian Journal of Andrology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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