1. Salvage Treatment after Focal Therapy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer
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Giancarlo Marra, Petr Macek, Xavier Cathelineau, Rafael Sanchez-Salas, Caio Pasquali Dias dos Santos, Cristiano Linck Pazeto, and Rafael Tourinho-Barbosa
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Prostatectomy ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Urology ,Salvage therapy ,Urinary incontinence ,medicine.disease ,humanities ,Focal therapy ,Radiation therapy ,Prostate cancer ,Erectile dysfunction ,Quality of life ,medicine ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
For a long time, the treatment options for localized prostate cancer (PCa) were active treatment, radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiotherapy (RT), which have excellent oncologic outcomes, however, associated to considerable complications rates, especially erectile dysfunction (ED) and urinary incontinence (UI), worsening quality of life (QoL). This chapter examines salvage therapy after focal therapy.
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- 2020
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