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Prostate cancer mortality is high in the elderly and can be reduced by selective individualized curative treatment

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  1. Discipline of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    Kim Moretti

  2. School of Population Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia

    Kim Moretti

  3. South Australian Prostate Cancer Clinical Outcomes Collaborative (SA-PCCOC), Adelaide, South Australia

    Kim Moretti, Sina Vatandoust, Ganessan Kichenadasse, Michael E. O’Callaghan, Andrew D. Vincent, Tina Kopsaftis, Scott Walsh, Martin Borg & Chris Karapetis

  4. Department of Medical Oncology, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, Australia

    Sina Vatandoust, Ganessan Kichenadasse, Michael E. O’Callaghan & Chris Karapetis

  5. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    Michael E. O’Callaghan & Martin Borg

  6. Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health, Adelaide, Australia

    Kim Moretti, Michael E. O’Callaghan & Andrew D. Vincent

  7. Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia

    Kim Moretti

  8. Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia

    Sina Vatandoust, Ganessan Kichenadasse & Michael E. O’Callaghan

  9. Adelaide Radiotherapy Centre, Adelaide, Australia

    Martin Borg

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KM: Project development, Data analysis, Manuscript writing/editing. SV: Project development, Data management Data analysis, Manuscript writing/editing. GK: Project development, Data analysis, Manuscript editing. MEO: Project development, Data collection, Manuscript editing. ADV: Project development, Data analysis, Manuscript editing. TK: Project development, Data collection or management, Manuscript editing. SW: Project development, Data collection or management, Manuscript editing. MB: Project development, Data analysis, Manuscript editing. CSK: Project development, Data analysis, Manuscript editing

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This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. These studies did not include experimentation on humans by any of the authors, and relate to collection and reporting of patient data from a prospective cancer registry, in accordance with ethical approvals obtained from the Southern Adelaide Local Heath Network (SALHN), South Australian Department of Health.

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Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in our registry and in this study.

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Moretti, K., Vatandoust, S., Kichenadasse, G. et al. Prostate cancer mortality is high in the elderly and can be reduced by selective individualized curative treatment. World J Urol 36, 1799–1800 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-018-2312-9

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