Journal
PROSTATE CANCER AND PROSTATIC DISEASES
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 237-241Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500963
Keywords
prostate neoplasms; prognostic factors; radiotherapy
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Insignificant' prostate cancer is defined as disease of virulence insufficient to threaten survival. In this review, which describes nine articles and two abstracts discussing almost 800 cases, we discuss the correlation of such 'insignificant' biopsy findings in the context of subsequent radical prostatectomy data. From our review, minimal disease on biopsy does not reliably predict minimal disease in the subsequent prostatectomy specimen, in terms of the size and grade of tumor, extracapsular extension or positive margins. Thus, reasoned accounting should be made of other data before undertaking a course of radiation therapy as monotherapy, particularly prostate-specific antigen kinetics and potential molecular markers.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available