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Focal therapy for prostate cancer: revolution or evolution?

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Urology, April 2009
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Title
Focal therapy for prostate cancer: revolution or evolution?
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BMC Urology, April 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2490-9-2
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Ryan Turpen, Charles J Rosser

Abstract

The face of prostate cancer has been dramatically changed since the late 1980s when PSA was introduced as a clinical screening tool. More men are diagnosed with small foci of cancers instead of the advanced disease evident prior to PSA screening. Treatment options for these smaller tumors consist of expectant management, radiation therapy (brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy) and surgery (cryosurgical ablation and radical prostatectomy). In the highly select patient, cancer specific survival employing any of these treatment options is excellent, however morbidity from these interventions are significant. Thus, the idea of treating only the cancer within the prostate and sparing the non-cancerous tissue in the prostate is quite appealing, yet controversial. Moving forward if we are to embrace the focal treatment of prostate cancer we must: be able to accurately identify index lesions within the prostate, image cancers within the prostate and methodically study the litany of focal therapeutic options available.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
Unknown 44 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Other 6 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 9%
Professor 3 7%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 8 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 53%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Neuroscience 2 4%
Physics and Astronomy 2 4%
Computer Science 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 11 24%
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