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Nicolosi D
Diagnosi precoce del carcinoma prostatico in sicilia e calabria. Dati preliminare di uno studio osservazionale del GSTU e della SSCU.
Osservational Study on Early Diagnosis of Prostate Carcinoma in Sicily and Calabria
The diagnosis of prostate carcinoma has been monitored in Sicily and Calabria for one year. Material e Methods Twenty-seven urological centres of Sicily and Calabria joined the study. Detailed informations about age, familiarity, PSA, Gleason score and TNM stage at diagnosis were centralized between november 2001 and november 2002. Results 721 patients have been recruited. The median age was 73 years. More than 80% of the patients were older than 65 years. Median PSA was 14 ng/ml. The clinical stage at diagnosis was T1c in 33% of patients and 67% had an organ confined prostate cancer (T1-T2). Familiarity was detected in 8% of cases. Age and PSA at diagnosis in these patients were similar t…
STUDIO RANDOMIZZATO SUL RUOLO DEL MANTENIMENTO NELLA CHEMIOPROFILASSI ENDOVESCICALE PRECOCE DOPO TUR CON EPIRUBICINA
Environmental Risk Factors in Superficial Bladder Cancer
As a preliminary approach to define the object of larger case-control studies, the distribution of potential risk factors coming from environmental pollution among patients affected by superficial bladder cancer (TCCB) has been analyzed. Material e Methods. The analysis included only patients affected by medium risk superficial TCCB. Forty Italian urological centres joined the study. Detailed information about age, sex, residency, employment, active and passive cigarette smoking, water resource, hair-dye use were centralized. All patients underwent TUR and early intravesical chemotherapy. The distribution of the above mentioned environmental factors was related to tumor characteristics suc…