Reducing Mortality in the Ageing Patient: Treatment of the Primary Tumour Is Not Necessary.

Lamb AD., Brewster SF., Hamdy FC.

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for older men remains an unproven intervention in terms of both cancer control and functional and voiding outcomes. We highlight some of the evidence against radical surgery for older men while acknowledging that this is the direction of travel.

DOI

10.1016/j.euf.2017.10.008

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2017-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

3

Pages

328 - 329

Total pages

1

Keywords

Aged, 80 and over, Aging, Clinical Decision-Making, Humans, Life Expectancy, Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms, Male, Monitoring, Physiologic, Mortality, Patient Outcome Assessment, Patient Selection, Prostate, Prostatectomy, Prostatic Neoplasms, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Transurethral Resection of Prostate, Urinary Incontinence

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