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Nature Reviews Urology 6, 355–356 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/nrurol.2009.106

Risk factors: Improved risk stratification for prostate cancer

Hendrik Isbarn & Pierre I. Karakiewicz

One of the main challenges for physicians faced with newly diagnosed prostate cancer is how to reliably appraise the patient's risk of death from the disease. Baseline risk is the key determinant of treatment modality.