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The comment deals with prostate cancer and lymph node metastases
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The comment iexplaied that one article found adjuvant radiotherapy after surgery improved survival whereas another article did not find an improvement.s is important. The patients with prostate cancer and lympgh node metastases havea considerable risk of further spread of the cancer. The comment shows how to use djuvant radiotherapy in the best way.
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Treatment of prostate cancer is generally successful because most patients are cured. However prostate cancer is also the second leading cause of deaths in adult men. Some patients do not need treatmnt at all. In contrast, patients with prostate cancer and lymph node etastases is a heterogeneous group where some patients will gain from from surgery and radiotherapy whereas other patients remain cured by surgery alone.
Finn Edler von Eyben
Center of TobaccoControl Research
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This page is a summary of: Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Lymph‐node Positive Prostate Cancer, BJU International, May 2014, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bju.12659.
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