The Scandinavian Prostate Cancer Group has published the results from the extended follow up of the SPCG-4 study, which compared watchful waiting with radical prostatectomy in men with early-stage prostate cancer. Extended follow-up 23 years after the initiation of the study has confirmed a substantial reduction in mortality after radical prostatectomy: 247 of the 348 men in the watchful-waiting group died, compared with 200 of 347 men in the surgery group.
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'Watch and wait' or 'watch and worry'?. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 11, 240 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2014.55
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrclinonc.2014.55