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Is it ever acceptable for high risk prostate cancer patients to be treated with upfront radical prostatectomy?

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Radiation Oncology · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

This is an excellent and timely question. There is definitely an increasing trend of patients with high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) receiving upfront radical prostatectomy (RP). Some of this is spurred by a recent, high-profile meta-analysis (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26700655), which poole...

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