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How good are guidelines for localized prostate cancer?

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Numerous clinical practice guidelines on the treatment of localized prostate cancer exist, but methodological quality varies considerably. A new report evaluates published guidelines, assessing the rigour and applicability of the recommendations and suggesting areas that require improvement.

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J.G. declares that he is Director of the National Collaborating Centre for Cancer, which is funded by NICE to produce cancer guidelines, is principal investigator of a trial of 223Ra in prostate cancer funded by Bayer Pharmaceuticals and is an investigator on a number of clinical trials supported by National Cancer Research Institute.

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Graham, J. How good are guidelines for localized prostate cancer?. Nat Rev Urol 12, 127–128 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2015.3

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