Will active surveillance for clinically localized prostate cancer survive in the era of individualized medicine?

Gandaglia, Giorgio; Giannarini, Gianluca; Suardi, Nazareno; Montorsi, Francesco; Briganti, Alberto · Eur Urol · 2014

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Abstract

The challenge for the next few years will be to individualize prostate cancer treatment and to determine whether or not a cancer will be lethal based on molecular characteristics at the time of diagnosis. In this view, the need for active treatment would represent a failure of any conservative approach.

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