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Comparing quality of life outcomes after prostate cancer treatment

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Life expectancy after primary treatment for localized prostate cancer is long, so the importance of functional outcomes and quality-of-life measures cannot be underestimated. Careful assessment of the data, with an emphasis on patient selection, definition of clinical significance, and length of follow-up duration, is essential.

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  1. Thenappan Chandrasekar is at the Division of Urology, Departments of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, 700 University Avenue, 6th floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1Z5, Canada.,

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  2. Derya Tilki is at the Martini-Klinik Prostate Cancer Center and the Department of Urology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.,

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Chandrasekar, T., Tilki, D. Comparing quality of life outcomes after prostate cancer treatment. Nat Rev Urol 14, 396–397 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2017.81

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