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Incidence and mortality of incidental prostate cancer: a Swedish register-based study
1Department of Urology Orebro University Hospital, Orebro 701 85, Sweden. ove.andren@orebroll.se
British Journal of Cancer
|December 18, 2008
Abstract:
In a national register-based study of incidence trends and mortality of incidental prostate cancer in Sweden, we found that a significant proportion (26.6%) of affected men diagnosed died of their disease, which challenges earlier descriptions of incidental prostate cancer as a non-lethal disease.
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