Radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy? A qualitative structured review

Radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy? A qualitative structured review

We performed a structured literature review to define de effectiveness of radical prostatectomy and external radiotherapy for treatment of localized prostate cancer. We identified 463 articles in MEDLINE for January 1990 through april 2000. As judged from our analysis, prostatectomy radical has marg...

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Veröffentlicht in:Actas urologicas españolas 2001-09, Vol.25 (8), p.535-543
Hauptverfasser: Campoy Martínez, P, Díaz Alfaro, M, Barrero Candau, R, Morales López, A, Grau Fibla, G, Pascual del Pobil, J L
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Sprache:spa
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Humans
Male
Prostatectomy
Prostatic Neoplasms - mortality
Prostatic Neoplasms - radiotherapy
Prostatic Neoplasms - surgery
Survival Rate
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Zusammenfassung:We performed a structured literature review to define de effectiveness of radical prostatectomy and external radiotherapy for treatment of localized prostate cancer. We identified 463 articles in MEDLINE for January 1990 through april 2000. As judged from our analysis, prostatectomy radical has marginal benefit in terms of supervivency and disease free respect to external radiotherapy with the same quality of life.
ISSN:0210-4806