Changes in biochemical disease-free survival rates as a result of adoption of the consensus conference definition in patients with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with external-beam radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 511-517

  Ennis, Ronald D ^a   Malyszko, Bozena K ^a   Heitjan, Daniel F ^b   Rubin, Mark A ^a   O'Toole, Kathleen M ^a   Schiff, Peter B ^a  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Sch of Pub Hlth Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ASTRO consensus conference; Biochemical disease free survival; Prostate; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen; PSA; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0031748460     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(98)00104-7     Document Type: Article

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