title: [Radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy? A qualitative structured review].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Campoy Martínez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Díaz Alfaro
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barrero Candau
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morales López
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grau Fibla
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pascual del Pobil
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate