Open AccessLow-risk prostate cancer in India: Is active surveillance a valid treatment option?
Author(s) -
Shanky Singh,
Sunil Patil,
Ashwin Sunil Tamhankar,
P. K. Ahluwalia,
Gagan Gautam
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of urology/indian journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-3824
pISSN - 0970-1591
DOI - 10.4103/iju.iju_37_20
Subject(s) - medicine , prostatectomy , prostate cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , malignancy , incidence (geometry) , prostate , prostate specific antigen , prostate carcinoma , cancer , urology , gynecology , paleontology , physics , optics , biology
Carcinoma prostate is considered highly aggressive in Asian countries such as India. This raises an argument whether active surveillance (AS) gives a false sense of security as opposed to upfront radical prostatectomy (RP) in Indian males with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa). We analyzed our prospectively maintained robot-assisted RP (RARP) database to address this question.