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What is the prognostic impact of positive surgical margins in surgically treated prostate cancer?

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boxed-textKarakiewicz PI et al. (2005) Prognostic impact of positive surgical margins in surgically treated prostate cancer: multi-institutional assessment of 5831 patients. Urology 66: 1245–1250

This study highlights the importance of achieving negative margins in radical prostatectomy; this is especially relevant to the use of nerve-sparing and laparoscopic surgery and active surveillance for prostate cancer

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  2. Professor of Urology and the Director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

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Loeb, S., Catalona, W. What is the prognostic impact of positive surgical margins in surgically treated prostate cancer?. Nat Rev Urol 3, 418–419 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0549

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