Time course and predictors of symptoms after primary prostate cancer therapy

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3979-3986

  Talcott, James A ^a   Manola, Judith ^a   Clark, Jack A ^a   Kaplan, Irving ^a   Beard, Clair J ^a   Mitchell, Sonya P ^a   Chen, Ronald C ^a   O'Leary, Michael P ^a   Kantoff, Philip W ^a   D'Amico, Anthony V ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT FUNCTION; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; AGED; BLADDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; IMPOTENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME; UNITED STATES; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 0642281442     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2003.01.199     Document Type: Article

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