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So Dr. Timothy Wilt presented the initial results of the Prostate Cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT) at the annual meeting of the AUA yesterday morning. They showed what many of us may have been expecting.
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On January 1 this year we offered a short list of just three “major” trials that we were hoping to see results from in 2011. One of these trials was the randomized, U.S.-based trial of “palliative expectant management” vs. radical surgery in men with localized prostate cancer (the Prostate Cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial or [...]
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It doesn’t tell us a great deal, but we are pleased to note the earliest publication of data from the Prostate cancer Intervention Versus Observation Trial (PIVOT), a multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial initiated in 1994 to compare the effects of watchful waiting to radical prostatectomy in men with localized prostate cancer.
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