The staging pelvic lymphadenectomy: implications as an adjunctive procedure for clinically localized prostate cancer

Abstract

From this data, lymph node metastases are unlikely in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer who have a PSA of < 20 ng/mL and a Gleason score < 8, and that a pelvic lymph node dissection as an adjunctive procedure should be avoided in such individuals.