Predictive criteria of insignificant prostate cancer: what is the correspondence of linear extent to percentage of cancer in a single core?
Objective The aim of active surveillance of early prostate cancer is to individualize therapy by selecting for curative treatment only patients with significant cancer. Epstein’s criteria for prediction of clinically insignificant cancer in surgical specimens are widely used. Epstein’s criterion “no...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia
2015-04-01
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| Series: | International Brazilian Journal of Urology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-55382015000200367&lng=en&tlng=en |