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To determine the association between obesity and prostate cancer recurrence after primary treatment with radical prostatectomy. Data were abstracted from CaPSURE, a disease registry of 10,018 men with prostate cancer. We included 2131 men who had undergone radical prostatectomy between 1989 and 2003 and had body mass index (BMI) information available. Recurrence was defined as two consecutive prostate-specific...
Conclusions. Patient age, race, cancer risk group, comorbidity, and, for men older than 75 years, education level are the factors predictive of the primary treatment received by men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer.
Objectives. To measure the effect of treatment choice (pelvic irradiation [XRT] versus radical prostatectomy [RP] with or without nerve sparing) on sexual function and sexual bother during the first 2 years after treatment.Methods. We studied sexual function and sexual bother in 438 men recently diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer and treated with XRT or RP with or without nerve sparing. Outcomes...
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