A Farewell to Arms - An Institutional Review of Conventional Staging for Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer.
Detection of metastatic disease by conventional CT and bone scan was poor in this cohort, despite their presence, and their recommendation by EAU seems unwarranted. Patients could safely avoid these scans and proceed directly to radical treatment, due to the theoretical benefit of treating despite oligometastatic disease.
Authors
- Humayun Bashir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7546-2363)
- Rustam Karanjia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8944-2208)
- Sashi S. Kommu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4257-2157)
- E. Streeter
- Oluwabunmi Tayo
- Pallab Sarkar
- Vishnu Basavaraju
Institutions
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2478/jcas-2025-0006
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.52