Prostate carcinoma: Surgical management of regional disease

✍ Scribed by Robert P. Gibbons

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 494 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19961215)78:12<2455::aid-cncr1>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

welve to twenty-eight percent of patients newly diagnosed with T prostate carcinoma have disease clinically classified as T3.I.' Radical prostatectomy for these patients with clinical T3 prostate carcinoma can be safely performed with acceptable morbidity, but this has not been a widely accepted or performed treatment. Of a combined series of 1024 patients, Quinlan et al. and Petros and Catalona performed a radical prostatectomy in only 7 (0.7%) with clinical T3 disease."' Nevertheless, some patients with T3 disease will request radical prostatectomy, and some published data are available about the results in such cases.