Guideline for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer: 2007 update
Guideline for the management of clinically localized prostate cancer: 2007 update
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DOI:
10.1016/j.juro.2007.03.003
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发表时间:
2007-06-01
影响因子:
6.6
通讯作者:
Tangen, Catherine M.
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作者:
Thompson, Ian;Thrasher, James Brantley;Tangen, Catherine M.
In December 1995, the AUA published the Report on the Management of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer. 1The document was the culmination of six years of work by 17 clinicians and scientists and required the evaluation of 12,501 scientific publications with the detailed extraction of information from 165 papers that met the rigorous criteria of the panel of experts (Appendix 1 on-line). The Panel noted that a lack of evidence precluded specific recommendations for optimal treatment of an individual patient, which patients should be offered all treatment options, and that patient preferences should guide decision making. Since 1995, approximately 2,600,000 men 2 in the United States have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and nearly 375,000 men 3, 4 have lost their lives to this disease. In addition, the National Cancer Institute 4 has spent $2.1 billion on prostate cancer research and as of November 2005, approximately 28,111 scientific papers concerning prostate cancer have been published in peer-reviewed medical journals (OVID Search, December 31, 1995 to October 23, 2005; key