Increasing rate of lymph node invasion in patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy and lymph node dissection

To investigate lymph node invasion (LNI) rates in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. Recent studies demonstrated an inverse stage migration in PCa patients toward more advanced and unfavorable diseases. We hypothesized that this trend is also evident in LNI rates, in PCa patients treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND).

Source: Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations - June 7, 2018 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Felix Preisser, Sebastiano Nazzani, Marco Bandini, Michele Marchioni, Zhe Tian, Francesco Montorsi, Fred Saad, Alberto Briganti, Thomas Steuber, Lars Bud äus, Hartwig Huland, Markus Graefen, Derya Tilki, Pierre I. Karakiewicz Tags: Original article Source Type: research