Prostate Cancer

Investigators at Seoul National University zero in on prostate cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 9th, 2008

According to recent research published in the journal Bju International, "To evaluate the subclassifications of pT2 diseases in tumour-nodes-metastases (TNM) staging system for prostate cancer. We retrospectively analysed the data of 372 patients who underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) for pathologically organ-confined prostate cancer at our institution."

"Pathological staging of all subjects were re-evaluated using the 1997 and the 2002 TNM staging system for prostate cancer. Various clinicopathological features along with biochemical recurrence-free survival (BRFS) of pT2 subgroups were assessed. Using the 2002 TNM staging criteria, 87 of the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-12-09)

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