The clinical trial PREFERE aims to recruit 7600 patients with "early intermediate" prostate cancer.
The goal is to confirm noninferiority of cancer-specific survival after external-beam radiotherapy, permanent seed implantation, or active surveillance compared with radical prostatectomy.
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Wiegel T, Stöckle M, Bartkowiak D. Are you the author?
Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany; Department of Urology, University Hospital Homburg/Saar, Homburg, Germany.
Reference: Eur Urol. 2014 Sep 27. pii: S0302-2838(14)00911-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2014.09.016
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