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Background
Over 1 million men are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year worldwide, with a wide range of research programs requiring access to patient tissue samples for development of improved diagnoses and treatments. A random sampling of prostate tissue is sufficient for certain research studies; however, there is growing research need to target areas of the aggressive tumor as fresh tissue...
Background
Small cell carcinoma (SCC) of the prostate is a rare, aggressive disease. Evidence is limited; however, the current standard of care is chemotherapy. The benefit of local treatment modalities is unknown.
Methods
We queried the National Cancer Database identifying all SCC/neuroendocrine cases of the prostate, excluding those with unknown nodal or metastatic status, unknown treatment,...
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