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We need better randomized comparison trials of prostate cancer
Author(s) -
Lee W. Robert
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.24780
Subject(s) - medicine , randomized controlled trial , prostate cancer , cryotherapy , radiation therapy , cancer , prostate , oncology , surgery
More than 50 years after the first randomized oncology trial, the number of randomized trials comparing differing primary treatments for prostate cancer is disappointing. One of these rare, randomized primary treatment comparisons appears in this edition of Cancer , and the investigators are to be congratulated for their efforts comparing cryotherapy with external beam radiotherapy.