Reply to Ferhat Ates, Ilker Akyol and Hasan Soydan's letter to the editor: re: Meelan Bul, Xiaoye Zhu, Antti Rannikko, et al. Radical prostatectomy for low-risk prostate cancer following initial active surveillance: Results from a prospective observational study. Eur Urol. in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.eururo.2012.02.002

Meelan Bul; Xiaoye Zhu; Monique J. Roobol

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Reply to Ferhat Ates, Ilker Akyol and Hasan Soydan's letter to the editor: re: Meelan Bul, Xiaoye Zhu, Antti Rannikko, et al. Radical prostatectomy for low-risk prostate cancer following initial active surveillance: Results from a prospective observational study. Eur Urol. in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.eururo.2012.02.002

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We were amazed, to say the least, when we read the letter to the editor by Ates et al. regarding our paper. Their comments involve a series of misconceptions and inaccuracies that we feel we need to straighten out.
Unlike Ates et al. mention, and as is clearly stated in our article, our objective was to evaluate pathology findings of men undergoing radical prostatectomy (RP) after an initial period of active surveillance, making it merely an observational descriptive study. Analyzing subgroups, as was suggested, does not seem useful because patients who underwent surgery were not randomly selected; instead, [...]

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Journal	European Urology
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Radical prostatectomy for low-risk prostate cancer following initial active surveillance: Results from a prospective observational study
Bul, M., Zhu, X., Rannikko, A., Staerman, F., Valdagni, R., Pickles, T., Bangma, C. H. & Roobol, M. J., Aug 2012, In: European Urology. 62, 2, p. 195-200 6 p.
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Bul, M., Zhu, X., & Roobol, M. J. (2012). Reply to Ferhat Ates, Ilker Akyol and Hasan Soydan's letter to the editor: re: Meelan Bul, Xiaoye Zhu, Antti Rannikko, et al. Radical prostatectomy for low-risk prostate cancer following initial active surveillance: Results from a prospective observational study. Eur Urol. in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.eururo.2012.02.002. European Urology, 62(1), e10-e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2012.04.002

Bul, Meelan ; Zhu, Xiaoye ; Roobol, Monique J. / Reply to Ferhat Ates, Ilker Akyol and Hasan Soydan's letter to the editor : re: Meelan Bul, Xiaoye Zhu, Antti Rannikko, et al. Radical prostatectomy for low-risk prostate cancer following initial active surveillance: Results from a prospective observational study. Eur Urol. in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.eururo.2012.02.002. In: European Urology. 2012 ; Vol. 62, No. 1. pp. e10-e11.

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