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

References 

  1. Drachenberg DE. Treatment of prostate cancer: watchful waiting, radical prostatectomy, and cryoablation. Semin. Surg. Oncol. 2000;18:37–44
  2. Begg CB, Riedel ER, Bach PB, et al.  Variations in morbidity after radical prostatectomy. N. Engl. J. Med. 2002;346:1138–1144

☆ 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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