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SUBMITTER: Futterer JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6868105 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Futterer Jurgen J JJ Surcel Cristian C van den Bergh Roderick R Borgmann Hendrik H Briganti Alberto A Gandaglia Giorgio G Kretschmer Alexander A Ost Piet P Sooriakumaran Prasanna P Tilki Derya D Valerio Massimo M Ploussard Guillaume G De Visschere Pieter J L PJL Tsaur Igor I
World journal of urology 20180801 12
<h4>Purpose</h4>Along with a number of other malignancies, the term "oligometastatic" prostate cancer has recently emerged. It represents an attempt to define a subtype of cancer with a limited metastatic load that might perform more favorably than a distinctly disseminated disease, or even one that may be managed in a potentially curative way. Since there is currently a knowledge gap of what imaging modalities should be utilized to classify patients as having this type of tumor, we aimed to she ...[more]