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Monday, December 10, 2007

Postulate 3: adverse effects and cost considerations

No treatment is minimal in terms of adverse effects and cost. All widely accepted, local, definitive treatments for prostate cancer, including surgery, brachytherapy, external-beam irradiation and cryosurgery, induced erectile dysfunction in a considerable proportion of patients, and these treatments were associated with serious adverse effects in several patients.

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