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George Baumgartner, MD
Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center Chicago

JAMA. 1988;260(15):2215.

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To the Editor.—

On what data does Dr Chodak¹ base his statement that "the most recent assessment indicates that surgically implanted radioactive seeds have not been a sufficiently effective treatment for localized prostate cancer"?

Schellhammer and associates² reported similar percentages of negative biopsy findings with either open implantation of iodine 125 (65%) or external beam radiation therapy (71%) for treatment of prostate cancer.

Further, Dr Chodak, grouping together various surgical approaches, declares iodine 125 implantation experimental despite the fact that there is a history of success with open surgery, which was originally developed because of the anatomic limitation of the perineal approach.³ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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