Prostate cancer survivors face a myriad of unique physical, psychological and emotional challenges during the often lengthy survivorship experience. Efforts to better characterize the unmet needs of this large patient population will undoubtedly improve the quality of survivorship care we offer to our patients.
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Resnick, M. Optimizing prostate cancer survivorship care. Nat Rev Urol 12, 366–367 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2015.123
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