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Volume 17, Issue 6 (November 2015) 17, 882–884; 10.4103/1008-682X.156858
Active surveillance monitoring: the role of novel biomarkers and imaging
John F Ward, Scott E Eggener
Department of Urology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA;
Department of Urology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Correspondence: JF Ward
26 June 2015
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"CANCER" is a disease state that leads to progressive illness that is uniformly fatal without treatment. Hippocrates invoked the Greek word karkinos, or "crab," to describe tumors he observed. For centuries, "CANCER" remained a disease that was recognized primarily in its locally advanced or metastatic stage, when it was almost uniformly fatal.
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