Upper tract transitional cell carcinoma: Finding a way forward
β Scribed by Peter E. Clark
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 41 KB
- Volume
- 110
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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β¦ Synopsis
The author discusses an article in this issue of Cancer by Novara and colleagues, who presented the results from a multicenter, international, retrospective study that adds to the body of literature divining predictors of diseaseβspecific survival for patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract who undergo radical prostatectomy.
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