Radical external beam radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer in Japan: Changing trends in the patterns of care process survey between 1996-1998 and 1999-2001

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3507-3511

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakamura, Katsumasa ^b   Onishi, Hiroshi ^c   Sasaki, Tomonari ^b   Koizumi, Masahiko ^d   Shioyama, Yoshiyuki ^b   Komiyama, Takafumi ^c   Miyabe, Yuuki ^e   Teshima, Teruki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^d KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Patterns of Care Study; Prostate cancer; Radical external beam radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 23344454641     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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