Postoperative radiotherapy for patients with prostate cancer in Japan; changing trends in national practice between 1996-98 and 1999-2001: Patterns of Care Study for prostate cancer

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 649-654

  Sasaki, Tomonari ^a   Nakamura, Katsumasa ^b   Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^c   Onishi, Hiroshi ^d   Otani, Yuki ^e   Koizumi, Masahiko ^f   Shioyama, Yoshiyuki ^b   Teshima, Teruki ^e  

^a NATIONAL KYUSHU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Patterns of Care Study; Postoperative radiotherapy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; SALVAGE THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 33750691673     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyl079     Document Type: Article

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