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How do you incorporate the recent proposed guidelines for using a prostate cancer "Grade Grouping" system (i.e. scores 1-5) into your clinical practice?

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Radiation Oncology · Duke University School of Medicine

As theMedNet is a less formal venue for discourse I will do away with any pretense and answer the question honestly. I have no idea how I or anyone should incorporate this new system into practice. Although validated, the new system has not been used in randomized trials and one musn’t be overly dog...

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Radiation Oncology · UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

@Dr. First Last should've been at the table. I prefer the 6 categories as well since it fits better into our clinical decision making alforithm. Never understood how they forgot about the importance of PSA and T3/4 disease

Best of luck trying to simplify all of this for your patients in time to get ...

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