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who underwent a more extensive pelvic lymph-node dissection<br />

(PLND) had a better CSS than those who underwent a more<br />

limited one. Our data support a possible role of PLND in<br />

cancer outcome. Although the extent of PLND may indirectly<br />

influence BCR because of the Will-Rogers phenomenon, the<br />

inclusion of both node-positive and node-negative patients<br />

may partially exclude this bias.<br />

Figure 1.<br />

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SIURO-PRIAS-ITA: FIRST YEAR <strong>ITALIAN</strong><br />

EXPERIENCE IN <strong>THE</strong> PRIAS<br />

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE<br />

STUDY ON ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE<br />

Giario Conti1 , Tiziana Magnani2 , Roberto Salvioni3 ,<br />

Sergio Villa4 , Michele Gallucci5 , Rocco Papalia5 ,<br />

Giuseppe Martorana6 , Cosimo Bizzarri6 , Roberto<br />

Sanseverino7 , Giorgio Napodano7 , Pierpaolo Graziotti8 ,<br />

Gianluigi Taverna8 , Roberto Peschechera8 , Andrea Turci9 ,<br />

Giacomo Cicchetti9 , Enrico Bollito10 , Maurizio Colecchia11 ,<br />

Rodolfo Montironi12 , Steno Sentinelli13 , Monique Roobol14 and Riccardo Valdagni2,4 1Dip. Chirurgia, Ospedale Sant’Anna, Como, Italy;<br />

2Programma Prostata, 3SC Urologia, 4SC Radioterapia<br />

Oncologica 1, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei<br />

Tumori, Milano, Italy;<br />

5Div. Urologia, Istituto Regina Elena, Roma, Italy;<br />

6Div. Urologia, Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi, Bologna,<br />

Italy;<br />

7Div. Urologia, Ospedale Umberto I, Nocera Inferiore, Italy;<br />

8Div. Urologia, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy;<br />

9Div. Urologia, Ospedale M. Bufalini, Cesena, Italy;<br />

10Servizio di Anatomia Patologica,<br />

Ospedale San Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano, Italy;<br />

11SC Anatomia Patologica, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto<br />

Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy;<br />

12Servizio di Anatomia Patologica,<br />

Ospedali Riuniti, Torrette di Ancona, Italy;<br />

1952<br />

ANTICANCER RESEARCH 31: 1807-1956 (2011)<br />

13 Servizio di Anatomia Patologica,<br />

Istituto Regina Elena, Roma, Italy;<br />

14 Div. Urology, Erasmus Medical Center,<br />

Rotterdam, the Netherlands<br />

PRIAS is the acronym for Prostate cancer Research<br />

International: Active Surveillance, a large collaborative<br />

international study on observational strategy in low-risk<br />

prostate cancer patients, coordinated by the Erasmus<br />

University Medical Center in Rotterdam. Over two thousand<br />

patients have been enrolled since 2006. The Italian Society<br />

of Urological Oncology (SIUrO) joined the protocol in<br />

December 2009. Eligibility criteria were: PSA ≤10 ng/ml,<br />

Gleason score ≤6 or Gleason 3+4 in men >69 years old with<br />

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