Radical external beam radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer in Japan: Differences in the patterns of care between Japan and the United States

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 1 B, 2006, Pages 575-580

  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

Hormone therapy; Patterns of care study; Prostatic carcinoma; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 32144456803     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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