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To the Editor: Bill-Axelson et al. (May 12 issue)¹ state that disease-specific mortality after 10 years of follow-up was reduced by 5.3 percentage points among men assigned to radical prostatectomy, favoring radical prostatectomy over watchful waiting. However, from the data in Table 3 of their article, it appears that 35 subjects were lost from the prostatectomy group and 12 subjects were lost from the watchful-waiting group. If the numbers for disease-specific mortality (30 deaths in the radical-prostatectomy group and 50 deaths in the watchful-waiting group) are used to recalculate the disease-specific mortality, and if it is assumed that all missing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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