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Prostate cancer is a common malignancy among American males but is associated with a remarkably low mortality rate. Management options for this disease include active surveillance, surgical resection, radiotherapy, and hormone manipulation. This chapter discusses diagnosis and management, as well as the controversy around the role of serum marker-based screening for prostate cancer.

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  1. Division of Urology, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Rosa Park & Matthew Kaag

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  1. Department of Surgery, Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    Salvatore Docimo Jr.

  2. Department of Surgery, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Eric M. Pauli

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Park, R., Kaag, M. (2019). Prostate Cancer. In: Docimo Jr., S., Pauli, E. (eds) Clinical Algorithms in General Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98497-1_147

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