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UroToday.com - In the online edition of the British Journal of Urology International, a group from Columbia University Department of Urology report that older men undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer (CaP) do not have an increased risk of disease recurrence in the multivariate context that includes PSA level, Gleason score and clinical stage…

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