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Can we preoperatively identify men who are at high risk for aggressive prostate cancer?

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boxed-textD'Amico AV et al. (2005) Identifying patients at risk for significant versus clinically insignificant postoperative prostate-specific antigen failure. J Clin Oncol 23: 4975–4979

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