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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Radical Prostatectomy /RP /"”.
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Self-Efficacy in Nutrition and Exercise Affecting Long-term Quality of Life in Patients with Prostate Cancer
In patients with prostate cancer (PCa), the radical prostatectomy (RP) is a morbid surgery with vast implications for quality of life (QoL), as patients suffer physical and psychological symptoms for years postoperatively. Little is known about the psychological associated factors that influence …
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Detecting prostate cancer metastases - PET/CT and the sentinel node technique
… patients with biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy (RP) was evaluated in Study III. SN detection was prospectively evaluated and compared with ePLND in Study IV. The main results were: 1) A fifth of patients with high-risk prostate cancer and normal or inconclusive planar bone …
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Is The Learning Curve In Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomies (RALP) in South Africa Comparable to International Standards?
Background and purpose Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men, and the sixth leading cause of cancer death among men worldwide (1). Radical Prostatectomy (RP) is widely considered a gold standard treatment for clinically significant localized PCa. Robotic assisted …
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Obesity and Aggressive Prostate Cancer: Bias and Biology
… analyzing the association between anthropomorphic measures and overall PC risk, as well as risk of aggressive disease, and illustrate how unique aspects of PC diagnosis and treatment render its risk factor associations unusually susceptible to selection biases which are largely unabated by …
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IDENTIFICATION OF NCAM1 AS A NOVEL PROGNOSTIC PROSTATE CANCER STEM CELL BIOMARKER
… cohort of 406 PCa patients treated with radical prostatectomy (RP), we uncovered that NCAM1 is an independent prognostic marker for predicting distant metastasis and biochemical recurrence and its expression in radical prostatectomy biopsies concurred with diagnostic biopsies (concordance …
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Patienten vor radikaler Prostatektomie oder Brachytherapie : ein epidemiologischer Vergleich
… options for the localised disease are the radical prostatectomy (RP) and the brachytherapy (BT). The BT can be administered as “low dose rate brachytherapy” (LDR) or “high dose rate brachytherapy” (HDR). In the years between January 1999 and November 2004 653 patients with localised …
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Evaluation and validation of some preoperative and postoperative prognostic models for prostate cancer//Оценка и валидиране на някои предоперативни и постоперативни прогностични модели при простатен карцином
В повечето индустриализирани страни простатният карцином /ПК/ е най-често срещаното злокачествено заболяване сред мъжете и втората водеща причина за смърт при тях. ПК е хетерогенно заболяване с твърде широк прогностичен спектър. Пациентите са изправени пред разнобразни опции за лечение: радикална …