Re: Axel Heidenreich, Gunnar Aus, Michel Bolla, et al. EAU guidelines on prostate cancer. Eur Urol 2008;53:68-80.
Re: Axel Heidenreich, Gunnar Aus, Michel Bolla, et al. EAU guidelines on prostate cancer. Eur Urol 2008;53:68-80.
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回复:Axel Heidenreich、Gunnar Aus、Michel Bolla 等人。
DOI:
10.1016/j.eururo.2008.03.002
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发表时间:
2008
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影响因子:
23.4
通讯作者:
M. Kirollos
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M. Kirollos
We are very grateful for the valuable comments made by Kirollos [1], considering the great importance and influence of these guidelines with regard to diagnosis and therapy of patients with prostate cancer in Europe. Certainly the constructive criticism will be considered in the updated version of EAU guidelines, which will be presented in 2009.The new version of the guidelines has been developed on the basis of the older version and with the help of consultant radio-oncologists, medical oncologists, and, last but not least, the peer review board of European Urology, underlining the fact that these guidelines have undergone extensive consultation processes prior to publication [2]. The published version of the guidelines, however, represents the short version, which had to be significantly shortened because of space limitations, as compared to the long version accessible via the Internet [3]. Therefore, various recommendations had to be condensed extensively without the opportunity to discuss individual approaches; it was the purpose of the included tables to provide the reader with some additional information. However, we agree with Dr. Kirollos that we should have been even more careful when writing and phrasing the short version of the EAU guidelines on prostate cancer.