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How should we define patients who are at high risk of death from prostate cancer?

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boxed-textD'Amico AV et al. (2007) Prostate cancer-specific mortality after radical prostatectomy or external beam radiation therapy in men with 1 or more high-risk factors. Cancer 110: 56–61

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