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- Title
The Clinical Management of Patients With a Small Volume of Prostatic Cancer on Biopsy: What Are the Risks of Progression?
- Authors
Harnden, Patricia; Naylor, Brian; Shelley, Michael D.; Clements, Hayley; Coles, Bernadette; Mason, Malcolm D.
- Abstract
This article evaluates the literature regarding the outcomes of men diagnosed on the basis of a small volume of cancer in prostatic biopsies. The authors found that despite differences in study design and reporting, a significant proportion of patients with microfocal cancer had adverse pathologic findings and a significant risk of prostatic-specific antigen after undergoing radical prostatectomy. They concluded that patients with microfocal carcinoma on biopsy should be advised that their disease is not necessarily insignificant.
- Subjects
PROSTATE cancer; BIOPSY; CANCER patients; PROSTATECTOMY; ANTIGENS
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 2008, Vol 112, Issue 5, p971
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cncr.23277