External beam radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy: Efficacy and impact on urinary continence

Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 170-177

  Petroski, R A ^a,b   Warlick, W B ^b   Herring, J ^a,b,c   Donahue, T F ^b   Sun, L ^a,c   Smith, C V ^a,b   Connelly, R R ^a   McLeod, D G ^a,b,c   Moul, J W ^a,b  

^a Center for Prostate Disease Research   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

External beam radiation; Outcomes; Prostate carcinoma; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 3142741714     PISSN: 13657852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.pcan.4500718     Document Type: Article

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