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Success rates for prostate cancer depend on experience of surgeon

07-24-2007 · EurekAlert!

Surgeons performing operations to remove patients' prostate glands -- the primary treatment for prostate cancer -- go through a steep learning curve, according to a study published online July 24 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. As the surgeons gain more experience performing the operation, called a radical prostatectomy, the chance that patients' prostate cancer will reoccur goes down.

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