High risk of under-grading and -staging in prostate cancer patients eligible for active surveillance.

BACKGROUND:Active surveillance (AS) is increasingly offered to patients with low risk prostate cancer. The present study was conducted to evaluate the risk of tumor under-grading and -staging for AS eligibility. Moreover, we analyzed possible biomarkers for predicting more unfavorable final tumor hi...

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Main Authors: Isabel Heidegger, Viktor Skradski, Eberhard Steiner, Helmut Klocker, Renate Pichler, Andreas Pircher, Wolfgang Horninger, Jasmin Bektic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4319730?pdf=render