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When to Perform Bone Scan in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer: External Validation of the Currently Available Guidelines and Proposal of a Novel Risk Stratification Tool
European Urology, 03/22/2010
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Briganti A et al. – This is the first study aimed at externally validating the available guidelines addressing the need for staging baseline bone scans in PCa patients. All guidelines showed high accuracy. However, their accuracy was significantly lower compared with the accuracy of the novel risk stratification tool. According to this tool, staging bone scans might be considered only for patients with a biopsy Gleason score >7 or with a PSA >10 ng/ml and palpable disease (cT2/T3) prior to treatment.
