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Review Article| Volume 37, ISSUE 1, P1-9, February 2010

Prostate Cancer: To Screen or Not to Screen?

  • Alex Shteynshlyuger
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    Division of Urologic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Siteman Cancer Center, 4960 Children's Place, Campus Box 8242, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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  • Gerald L. Andriole
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    Corresponding author.
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    Division of Urologic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Siteman Cancer Center, 4960 Children's Place, Campus Box 8242, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
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