[Radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy? A qualitative structured review].
We performed a structured literature review to define de effectiveness of radical prostatectomy and external radiotherapy for treatment of localized prostate cancer. We identified 463 articles in MEDLINE for January 1990 through april 2000. As judged from our analysis, prostatectomy radical has marginal benefit in terms of supervivency and disease free respect to external radiotherapy with the same quality of life.
Campoy Martínez
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Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla.
Díaz Alfaro
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Barrero Candau
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Morales López
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Grau Fibla
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Pascual del Pobil
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D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate