Characteristics and national trends of patients receiving treatment of the primary tumor for metastatic prostate cancer

Background: We sought to determine temporal trends in the receipt of prostatectomy or locoregional radiation to the prostate for patients with metastatic prostate cancer and to identify predictors of receipt of local treatment. Methods: We identified 39,976 patients with metastatic prostate cancer d...

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Main Authors: Sumi Sinha, Vinayak Muralidhar, Felix Y. Feng, Paul L. Nguyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-09-01
Series:Prostate International
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2287888216300885