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What is the prognostic impact of positive surgical margins in surgically treated prostate cancer?

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The synopsis was written by Stacy Loeb and William J Catalona.

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  1. Resident in Urology at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC

    Stacy Loeb

  2. Professor of Urology and the Director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    William J Catalona

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Loeb, S., Catalona, W. What is the prognostic impact of positive surgical margins in surgically treated prostate cancer?. Nat Rev Urol 3, 418–419 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0549

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