Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 231-233, June 2003

Radical prostatectomy may improve disease-specific mortality, but not overall survival compared with watchful waiting in early prostate cancer:☆☆☆★

Abstracted from: Holmberg L, Bill-Axelson A, Helgesen F et al. A randomized trial comparing radical prostatectomy with watchful waiting in early prostate cancer. N Engl J Med 2002; 347: 103–6

Director of Research, Section of Urology, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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☆ Sources of funding: Swedish Cancer Society.

☆☆ For Correspondence: A Bill-Axelson, Department of Urology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden. E-mail: anna.bill-axelson@urologi.uas.lul.se

★ Abstract provided by Bazian Ltd., London.

PII: S0305-7372(03)00101-4

doi:10.1016/S0305-7372(03)00101-4

Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 231-233, June 2003

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