Is the percentage of cancer in biopsy cores predictive of extracapsular disease in T1-T2 prostate carcinoma?

✍ Scribed by Vincent Ravery; Hans-Peter Schmid; Marianne Toublanc; Laurent Boccon-Gibod

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 496 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19960901)78:5<1079::aid-cncr18>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

BACKGROUND.

Information regarding the quantity of biopsy material invaded by cancer may supplement the usual criteria for the preoperative staging of patients suffering from clinically localized prostate carcinoma (T1 -T2). However, conflicting conclusions have been drawn and this topic needs further investigation.