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 Prostate Cancer Surgery Volume At Individual Hospitals.

New Jersey Hospitals.

New York Hospitals.

Pennsylvania Hospitals.

Research Showing a Correlation Between a Relatively High Volume of Surgery for Cancer of the Prostate and Reduced Complication and Death Rates from the Surgery.

Methodology.

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The following research found a marked correlation between higher volume of surgery for cancer of the prostate and reduced complication and death rates from the surgery.

Begg et al.,Variations in Morbidity After Radical Prostatectomy, (National Library of Medicine's Medline abstract) N. Engl. J. Med., vol 346: 1138-1144, 2002.

Yao et al., Population-Based Study of Relationships Between Hospital Volume of Prostatectomies, Patient Outcomes, and Length of Hospital Stay, (National Library of Medicine's Medline abstract) J. Nat'l. Cancer Inst., vol. 91(22):1950-6, 1999.

Methodology.

 Volume was calculated for patients with prostate cancer having a radical prostatectomy. 

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