Improved clinical outcome in prostate cancer: real or statistical artefact?
Carol Lovegrove
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Over the past decade there has been a marked increase in reported survival rates for men with prostate cancer from many centers. A recent study, however, has suggested that some caution needs to be exercised when comparing historical and contemporary cases, and raises the possibility that statistical artefacts might be contributing to a "false sense of therapeutic accomplishment".
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