3-D conformal radiotherapy for prostate cancer: The University of Michigan experience

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue , 1996, Pages 238-243

  Sandler, Howard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM;

EID: 0029704069     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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