The aging prostate is never "normal": implications from the genomic characterization of multifocal prostate cancers

Thorsten Schlomm; Joachim Weischenfeldt; Jan Korbel; Guido Sauter

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2015.04.012

The aging prostate is never "normal": implications from the genomic characterization of multifocal prostate cancers

Thorsten Schlomm
Joachim Weischenfeldt
Jan Korbel
Guido Sauter

Related Research units

Department for Urology
Institute of Pathology

Abstract

We argue against the recently published statement that tumor-specific molecular alterations found in "normal" prostate tissue from cancer patients challenge focal therapy approaches that only target a visible cancer lesion and not the adjacent molecular field.

Bibliographical data

Original language	English
ISSN	0302-2838
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2015.04.012
Publication status	Published - 09.2015

PubMed	25913065