Radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting in early prostate cancer.

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Published in N Engl J Med on March 06, 2014

Authors

Anna Bill-Axelson1, Lars Holmberg, Hans Garmo, Jennifer R Rider, Kimmo Taari, Christer Busch, Stig Nordling, Michael Häggman, Swen-Olof Andersson, Anders Spångberg, Ove Andrén, Juni Palmgren, Gunnar Steineck, Hans-Olov Adami, Jan-Erik Johansson

Author Affiliations

1: From the Departments of Surgical Sciences (A.B.-A., M.H.) and Immunology, Genetics, and Pathology (C.B.), and the Regional Cancer Center Uppsala Örebro (L.H., H.G.), Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, the School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University and Department of Urology, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro (S.-O.A., O.A., J.-E.J.), the Department of Urology, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping (A.S.), the Department of Oncology and Pathology, Division of Clinical Cancer Epidemiology (G.S.), and Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (J.P., H.-O.A.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and the Division of Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg (G.S.) - all in Sweden; King's College London, School of Medicine, Division of Cancer Studies, London (L.H., H.G.); Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (J.R.R.), and the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health (J.R.R., H.-O.A.) - all in Boston; and the Department of Urology, Helsinki University Central Hospital (K.T.), and the Department of Pathology, University of Helsinki (S.N.) - both in Helsinki.

Associated clinical trials:

Initial Experience in Brazilian Single Center With High Intensity Focalized Ultrasound (HIFU) Prostate Cancer Therapy: Morbidity, Oncological and Functional Outcomes. | NCT03255135

Predicting Prostate Biopsy Results With Biomarkers and mpMRI. (ProBioM) | NCT03730324

Prospective Clinical Safety and Efficacy Study of Lesion-targeted MRI-TULSA for Localized Prostate Cancer (PRO-TULSA-PC) | NCT03814252

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