Radiotherapy versus surgery for localized prostatic cancer

Paulson, D.F.

Urologic Clinics of North America 14(4): 675-684

1987


ISSN/ISBN: 0094-0143
PMID: 3314062
Document Number: 301033
Current data from randomized and nonrandomized clinical trials would indicate that radical prostatectomy offers the optimum method of disease control. The benefit of radical surgery is related to the extent of local disease. Gleason sum of the prostatic primary predicts for the probability of tumor extent.

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