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Grade Inflation in Prostate Cancer
Over the last several decades, the survival of men with prostate cancer, by Gleason score, has improved and the reported incidence of low-grade prostate cancer has declined. These changes could reflect the identification of more aggressive tumors; alternatively, they could reflect Gleason score shift, whereby contemporary prostate biopsies are graded higher than they would have been in years past even though their biological characteristics have not changed. In this issue, Albertsen et al. (p. 1248) report that, when a single pathologist reread the biopsy slides of 1858 men who had been diagnosed with prostate
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