Evidence for cure of 'young' men with prostate cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 563-567

  Hanks, Gerald E ^a,c   Hanlon, Alexandra L ^b   Horwitz, Eric M ^c  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (United States)

^b Departments of Radiation Oncology and Biostatistics

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEFECATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DEFECATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0035351023     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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