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Assessment of clinical and pathologic characteristics predisposing to disease recurrence following radical prostatectomy in men with pathologically organ-confined prostate cancer.
European urology - 1 Feb 2002
Palisaar R Jüri, Graefen Markus, Karakiewicz Pierre I, Hammerer Peter G, Huland Edith, Haese Alexander, Fernandez Salvator, Erbersdobler Andreas, Henke Rolf-Peter, Huland Hartwig
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OBJECTIVE: To identify risk factors for biochemical failure after radical prostatectomy (RP) in men with pathologically organ-confined (OC) prostate cancer (PCa). METHODS: Clinical and pathological characteristics of 331 consecutive men with pT2N0 PCa treated solely with RP were used in Cox proportional hazard models to identify independent predictors of prostate specific antigen (PSA) failure (PSA > or = 0.1...
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