Feasibility and preliminary outcome of salvage combined HDR brachytherapy and external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for local recurrences after radical prostatectomy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-145

  Niehoff, Peter ^a   Loch, Tilmann ^b   Nürnberg, Niels ^a   Galalae, Razvan ^a   Egberts, Jan ^a   Kohr, Peter ^a   Kovács, György ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Diakonie Flensburg ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Prostate cancer; Prostatectomy; Recurrences

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED BRACHYTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18844442024     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2004.12.004     Document Type: Article

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