title: Radiotherapy versus surgery for localized prostatic cancer.
abstract: Current data from randomized and nonrandomized clinical trials would indicate that radical prostatectomy offers the optimum method of disease control. The benefit of radical surgery is related to the extent of local disease. Gleason sum of the prostatic primary predicts for the probability of tumor extent.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urologic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Paulson
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D011878:Radiotherapy