Response to Re: External beam radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy are associated with better survival in Asian prostate cancer patients

Christoph Würnschimmel^{1

2}, Mike Wenzel^{2

3}, Francesco Chierigo⁴, Rocco Simone Flammia⁵, Zhe Tian², Fred Saad², Alberto Briganti⁶, Shahrokh F Shariat^{7

8

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12}, Nazareno Suardi⁴, Carlo Terrone⁴, Michele Gallucci⁵, Felix Kh Chun³, Derya Tilki^{1

13}, Markus Graefen¹, Pierre I Karakiewicz²

Affiliations

¹ Martini-Klinik Prostate Cancer Center, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Urology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁴ Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
⁵ Department of Maternal-Child and Urological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza Rome University, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Department of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology, Urological Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Department of Urology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
⁹ Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Urology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹¹ Institute for Urology and Reproductive Health, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
¹² Division of Urology, Department of Special Surgery, Jordan University Hospital, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
¹³ Department of Urology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

Comment

Christoph Würnschimmel et al. Int J Urol. 2022 Jan.

. 2022 Jan;29(1):96.

doi: 10.1111/iju.14743. Epub 2021 Nov 17.

¹ Martini-Klinik Prostate Cancer Center, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
² Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, Division of Urology, University of Montréal Health Center, Montréal, QC, Canada.
³ Department of Urology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁴ Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
⁵ Department of Maternal-Child and Urological Sciences, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza Rome University, Rome, Italy.
⁶ Department of Urology and Division of Experimental Oncology, Urological Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Department of Urology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁸ Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
⁹ Department of Urology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Urology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
¹¹ Institute for Urology and Reproductive Health, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
¹² Division of Urology, Department of Special Surgery, Jordan University Hospital, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
¹³ Department of Urology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

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Comment on

Re: External beam radiotherapy and radical prostatectomy are associated with better survival in Asian prostate cancer patients.
So WZ, Wang Z, Tiong HY. So WZ, et al. Int J Urol. 2022 Jan;29(1):95. doi: 10.1111/iju.14741. Epub 2021 Nov 5. Int J Urol. 2022. PMID: 34739157 No abstract available.

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