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Title: | Focal therapy for localised prostate cancer: are we asking the correct research questions? |
Epworth Authors: | Murphy, Declan Costello, Anthony |
Other Authors: | Walton, Thomas Connolly, Stephen |
Keywords: | Focal therapy for localised prostate cancer Prostate Cancer Focal Therapy Catheter Ablation Neoplasm Staging Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre, Epworth Richmond Prostatic Neoplasms Index Lesion |
Issue Date: | Jan-2012 |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Citation: | BJU Int. 2012 Jan;109(1):1-3 |
Abstract: | The goals of focal therapy are laudable, namely reducing morbidity of treatment while ensuring at least equivalent oncological outcomes when compared with established interventions for localised prostate cancer, e.g. RP and external beam radiotherapy. While progress has been made towards better identifying the index lesion in these patients, there is much yet to be done to establish the validity of the index lesion theory as the metastatic focus and to establish that current targeting and ablative platforms are adequate to deliver the goals outlined above. The correct research questions have not yet been asked to establish either of these key principles underpinning focal therapy for localised prostate cancer. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11434/427 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10804.x |
PubMed URL: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22151749 |
ISSN: | 1464-4096 1464-410X 1464-4096 |
Journal Title: | BJU international |
Type: | Journal Article |
Affiliated Organisations: | The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Vict., Australia |
Type of Clinical Study or Trial: | Review |
Appears in Collections: | Cancer Services Epworth Prostate Centre UroRenal, Vascular |
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