Prostate Cancer

Study findings from University of North Carolina provide new insights into prostate cancer

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, March 29th, 2010

According to recent research from the United States, "Recent developments in the urologic oncology literature suggest that residual local disease-as opposed to the presence of occult metastases at surgery-may characterize a more substantial component of the natural history of the recurrence and progression of initially clinically localized prostate cancer than previously appreciated."

"These important studies have illuminated the extent to which postoperative radiotherapy (RT) may provide benefit to patients with adverse pathologic features (extraprostatic extension, seminal vesicle invasion, or positive surgical margins) or biochemical recurrence after radical...

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Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2010-03-29)

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