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List of works by Bertrand Tombal

A holistic approach to androgen deprivation therapy: treating the cancer without hurting the patient.

scientific article published on 08 December 2009

A multi-institutional analysis comparing adjuvant and salvage radiation therapy for high-risk prostate cancer patients with undetectable PSA after prostatectomy

scientific article published on 13 October 2010

A phase III extension trial with a 1-arm crossover from leuprolide to degarelix: comparison of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist and antagonist effect on prostate cancer.

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Access to information and expectations of treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients--results of a European survey

scientific article published on 16 January 2013

Additional analysis of the secondary end point of biochemical recurrence rate in a phase 3 trial (CS21) comparing degarelix 80 mg versus leuprolide in prostate cancer patients segmented by baseline characteristics.

scientific article published on 20 November 2009

Assessing the Optimal Timing for Early Salvage Radiation Therapy in Patients with Prostate-specific Antigen Rise After Radical Prostatectomy.

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Assessing the risk of unsuspected prostate cancer in patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy: a 13-year retrospective study of the incidence and natural history of T1a-T1b prostate cancers.

scientific article published in December 1999

Assessment and validation of a microinjection method for kinetic analysis of [Ca2+]i in individual cells undergoing apoptosis

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Assessment of the transcriptional activity of p53 improves the prediction of recurrence in superficial transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder

scientific article published on 01 July 2005

Biopsy and treatment decisions in the initial management of prostate cancer and the role of PCA3; a systematic analysis of expert opinion

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Can whole-body magnetic resonance imaging with diffusion-weighted imaging replace Tc 99m bone scanning and computed tomography for single-step detection of metastases in patients with high-risk prostate cancer?

scientific article published on 17 February 2012

Cardiovascular risk during hormonal treatment in patients with prostate cancer

scientific article published on March 2, 2011

Castration-resistant prostate cancer: from new pathophysiology to new treatment targets.

scientific article published on 24 June 2009

Chairperson's introduction: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently detected cancer in the European Union in men above 50 years of age

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Changes in alkaline phosphatase levels in patients with prostate cancer receiving degarelix or leuprolide: results from a 12-month, comparative, phase III study.

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Characterization and multiparameter analysis of visual adverse events in irofulven single-agent phase I and II trials.

scientific article published in November 2004

Chemoprevention of prostate cancer with nutrients and supplements.

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Contemporary role of prostate cancer antigen 3 in the management of prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 25 August 2011

Contemporary role of salvage lymphadenectomy in patients with recurrence following radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Continuous Improvement Versus Innovation: The Case for Sipuleucel-T

scientific article published on November 30, 2011

Corrigendum to 'EAU-ESMO Consensus Statements on the Management of Advanced and Variant Bladder Cancer-An International Collaborative Multistakeholder Effort Under the Auspices of the EAU-ESMO Guidelines Committees' [European Urology 77 (2020) 223-2

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Defining the Most Informative Intermediate Clinical Endpoints for Predicting Overall Survival in Patients Treated with Radical Prostatectomy for High-risk Prostate Cancer

scientific article published on 24 December 2018

Denosumab and bone-metastasis-free survival in men with castration-resistant prostate cancer: results of a phase 3, randomised, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on November 15, 2011

Do intraoperative analgesics influence oncological outcomes after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer?

scientific article published in December 2011

Docetaxel and beyond

scientific article published on 10 January 2007

EAU-ESMO Consensus Statements on the Management of Advanced and Variant Bladder Cancer-An International Collaborative Multistakeholder Effort†: Under the Auspices of the EAU-ESMO Guidelines Committees

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Early salvage radiation therapy does not compromise cancer control in patients with pT3N0 prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: results of a match-controlled multi-institutional analysis

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Editorial comment on: Shifting the paradigm of testosterone and prostate cancer: the saturation model and the limits of androgen-dependent growth

scientific article published on 24 September 2008

Educational tool-kit on diet and exercise: survey of prostate cancer patients about to receive androgen deprivation therapy

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Evaluation of DCE-MRI postprocessing techniques to assess metastatic bone marrow in patients with prostate cancer

scientific article published on June 8, 2012

Event-Free Survival, a Prostate-Specific Antigen-Based Composite End Point, Is Not a Surrogate for Overall Survival in Men With Localized Prostate Cancer Treated With Radiation

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Expert opinion on 6-monthly luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist treatment with the single-sphere depot system for prostate cancer.

scientific article published on July 2007

Focal therapy in prostate cancer-report from a consensus panel.

scientific article published on May 2010

Free to total prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ratio improves the discrimination between prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in the diagnostic gray zone of 1.8 to 10 ng/mL total PSA

scientific article published on 01 December 1996

Free/total PSA ratio does not improve prediction of pathologic stage and biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer: What Have We Done With Charles Huggins’ Legacy?

scientific article published on September 15, 2011

Identifying the best candidate for radical prostatectomy among patients with high-risk prostate cancer

scientific article published on 02 December 2011

Impact of Lymph Node Burden on Survival of High-risk Prostate Cancer Patients Following Radical Prostatectomy and Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Impact of primary tumor location on survival from EORTC advanced urothelial cancer studies.

scientific article published on 17 November 2017

Inhibition of caspase activity does not prevent the signaling phase of apoptosis in prostate cancer cells

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Intermittent androgen deprivation therapy: conventional wisdom versus evidence

scientific article published on 11 March 2009

Is there a prostate-specific antigen upper limit for radical prostatectomy?

scientific article published on 10 March 2011

Long-term Impact of Adjuvant Versus Early Salvage Radiation Therapy in pT3N0 Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Radical Prostatectomy: Results from a Multi-institutional Series

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

METastasis Reporting and Data System for Prostate Cancer: Practical Guidelines for Acquisition, Interpretation, and Reporting of Whole-body Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based Evaluations of Multiorgan Involvement in Advanced Prostate Cancer.

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Magnetic resonance imaging for the detection, localisation, and characterisation of prostate cancer: recommendations from a European consensus meeting

scientific article published on 21 December 2010

Magnetic resonance imaging of the axial skeleton enables objective measurement of tumor response on prostate cancer bone metastases

scientific article published on 01 October 2005

Magnetic resonance imaging of the axial skeleton for detecting bone metastases in patients with high-risk prostate cancer: diagnostic and cost-effectiveness and comparison with current detection strategies.

scientific article published on August 2007

Management of Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer: Report of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference 2019

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Management of Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer: The Report of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference APCCC 2017.

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Management of advanced prostate cancer: can we improve on androgen deprivation therapy?

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Maximizing outcomes in genitourinary cancers across the treatment continuum

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Metastasis-Free Survival Is a Strong Surrogate of Overall Survival in Localized Prostate Cancer

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Modern Detection of Prostate Cancer's Bone Metastasis: Is the Bone Scan Era Over?

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New treatment paradigm for prostate cancer: abarelix initiation therapy for immediate testosterone suppression followed by a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Non-metastatic CRPC and asymptomatic metastatic CRPC: which treatment for which patient?

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

Open to debate. The motion: Hormonal blockade should be limited due to significant adverse effects

scientific article published on 14 October 2008

Outcome predictors of radical prostatectomy in patients with prostate-specific antigen greater than 20 ng/ml: a European multi-institutional study of 712 patients

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Patterns and predictors of early biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy and adjuvant radiation therapy in men with pT3N0 prostate cancer: implications for multimodal therapies

scientific article published on 23 October 2013

Postoperative radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer: long-term results of a randomised controlled trial (EORTC trial 22911)

scientific article published on 19 October 2012

Prediction of outcome following early salvage radiotherapy among patients with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy.

scientific article published on 12 December 2013

Pretreatment tables predicting pathologic stage of locally advanced prostate cancer

scientific article published on 21 March 2014

Prognostic relevance of number and bilaterality of positive surgical margins after radical prostatectomy

scientific article published on 15 January 2011

Prognostic value of circulating prostate cells in patients with a rising PSA after radical prostatectomy.

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Prospective comparison of a fast 1.5-T biparametric with the 3.0-T multiparametric ESUR magnetic resonance imaging protocol as a triage test for men at risk of prostate cancer

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

Prospective randomized evaluation of emergency extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) on the short-time outcome of symptomatic ureteral stones.

scientific article published on 17 March 2005

Prospective randomized study comparing docetaxel, estramustine, and prednisone with docetaxel and prednisone in metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer.

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Prostate cancer screening: clinical impact of WHO calibration of Beckman Coulter Access prostate-specific antigen assays

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Prostate cancer: Bone Scan Index made easy, at last

scientific article published on 24 April 2012

Rapid in situ hybridization technique for detecting malignant mouse cell contamination in human xenograft tissue from nude mice and in vitro cultures from such xenografts

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Rationale for Modernising Imaging in Advanced Prostate Cancer.

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

Role of store-dependent influx of Ca2+ and efflux of K+ in apoptosis of CHO cells.

scientific article published in November 2004

Stratification of high-risk prostate cancer into prognostic categories: a European multi-institutional study

scientific article published on 25 January 2014

Testosterone in prostate cancer: the Bethesda consensus

scientific article published on November 30, 2011

Thapsigargin analogues for targeting programmed death of androgen-independent prostate cancer cells

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Thapsigargin induces a calmodulin/calcineurin-dependent apoptotic cascade responsible for the death of prostatic cancer cells.

scientific article published in June 2000

The role of abiraterone acetate in the management of prostate cancer: a critical analysis of the literature.

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The role of adjuvant hormonal treatment after surgery for localized high-risk prostate cancer: results of a matched multiinstitutional analysis

scientific article published on 31 January 2012

Toward the End of Blind Prostate Biopsies?

scientific article published on 02 August 2012

What is the pathophysiology of a hormone-resistant prostate tumour?

scientific article published on September 2011

Whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) versus axial skeleton MRI (AS-MRI) to detect and measure bone metastases in prostate cancer (PCa)

scientific article published on 27 July 2010

Words of Wisdom. Re: pharmacological prevention of side effects of androgen deprivation therapy, a new challenge?

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Words of wisdom: Re: Dutasteride in localised prostate cancer management: the REDEEM randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

[Contribution of the preoperative urodynamic findings in the determination of risks factors of urinary incontinence after radical retropubic prostatectomy]

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

[Fournier's gangrene on ischial pressure ulcer: use of vacuum-assisted closure and therapeutic strategy]

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

[Innovations in hormonal treatment for locally advanced and/or metastatic prostate cancer]

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

[Non continent urinary transcutaneous derivation to cure recurrent vesicostomy prolapse]

scientific article published on 13 March 2009