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Randomized, Prospective, Controlled Study Comparing Radical Prostatectomy Alone and Neoadjuvant Androgen Withdrawal in the Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer

Abstract

PURPOSE: A prospective, multicenter, randomized study was done to test the hypothesis that neoadjuvant androgen withdrawal decreases the incidence of positive margins following radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Observations were made of 213 patients randomized to undergo radical prostatectomy alone (101) or to receive a 12-week course of 300 mg. cyproterone acetate daily followed by surgery (112). …

Authors

Goldenberg SL; Klotz LH; Srigley J; Jewett MAS; Mador D; Fradet Y; Barkin J; Chin J; Paquin J-M; Bullock MJ

Journal

Journal of Urology, Vol. 156, No. 3, pp. 873–877

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

September 1996

DOI

10.1016/s0022-5347(01)65645-3

ISSN

0021-0005