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Identifying patients at risk for prostate-cancer-specific mortality: implications for clinical trial design

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boxed-textTsai HK et al. (2006) Cancer-specific mortality after radiation therapy with short-course hormonal therapy or radical prostatectomy in men with localized, intermediate-risk to high-risk prostate cancer. Cancer 107: 2597–2603

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  1. AJ Stephenson is an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Associate Attending Staff in the Section of Urologic Oncology at the Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA.,

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