Gleason score 6 adenocarcinoma: should it be labeled as cancer?

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Published in J Clin Oncol on October 01, 2012

Authors

H Ballentine Carter1, Alan W Partin, Patrick C Walsh, Bruce J Trock, Robert W Veltri, William G Nelson, Donald S Coffey, Eric A Singer, Jonathan I Epstein

Author Affiliations

1: The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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