Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer 2017

Hospital admissions after transrectal ultrasound- guided biopsy of the prostate in men diagnmosed with prostate cancer: a database analysis from England. Anastasiadis E et al., Int J Urol 2015; 22: 181 - 186

• n = 198.361 men between 2000 – 2008

• 30-days complicationrate: 3.7% • 1.1% Urinary infection / Sepsis • 1.4% Hematuria • 1.3% Urinary retention

• Increase 1998 => 2008 • HR = 1.20, 95% confidence interval 1.08-1.34 • HR = 1.72, 95% confidence interval 1.41-2.10 for infectin/sepsis

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