Predicting the Risk of Patients With Biopsy Gleason Score 6 to Harbor a Higher Grade Cancer
- 1 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 178 (5), 1925-1928
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2007.07.049
Abstract
Purpose: Prostate cancer Gleason score 3 + 3 = 6 is currently the most common score assigned on prostatic biopsies. We analyzed the clinical variables that predict the likelihood of a patient with ...Keywords
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