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cooleydd's Archive on May 07, 2008
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NOTE: This is an interesting study that show those who had radiation and showed success as per the Phoenix definition of failure still had prostate cancer in their gland. The problem is the Phoenix definition. Had they used a definition that was quicker to show failure the findings might be very different. Had they used a PSA of anything over 0.2 as failure more of these men whould have shown failure and, therefore, less would have shown cancer in their gland. A poor study that only confuses the issue of Radiation.
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The incidence of histologic prostate cancer (CaP) after definitive radiation therapy (RT) for localized disease is rarely quantitated. We investigated the relationship between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and histologically residual CaP after definitive RT in patients undergoing radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP) for unrelated indications.