Minimally invasive surgical modalities in the management of localized prostate cancer.

Journal article

Localized prostate cancer is one of the success stories of modern oncology, with radical treatments offering long-term cancer-specific survival for most patients. In fact, most men with this condition die from nonprostate cancer diseases rather than from their prostate cancer. Open radical prostatectomy has been the gold standard radical treatment for localized prostate cancer, but a new dawn is emerging. Novel minimally invasive modalities are now available, and include both minimally invasi...

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Authors: Jamal, K; Patel, P; Sooriakumaran, P

• Journal: Expert review of anticancer therapy
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 957-966
• Publication date: 2008-06-01
• DOI: 10.1586/14737140.8.6.957
• EISSN: 1744-8328
• ISSN: 1473-7140
• Language: English
• Keywords: Laparoscopy; Treatment Outcome; Prostatectomy; Surgical Procedures, Minimally Invasive; Male; Ultrasound, High-Intensity Focused, Transrectal; Brachytherapy; Robotics; Humans; Cryosurgery; Prostatic Neoplasms