Clinical role of pathological downgrading after radical prostatectomy in patients with biopsy confirmed Gleason score 3 + 4 prostate cancer.

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Published in BJU Int on August 13, 2014

Authors

Tatsuo Gondo1, Bing Ying Poon, Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Melanie Bernstein, Daniel D Sjoberg, James A Eastham

Author Affiliations

1: Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.

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