Adjuvant radiotherapy for high-risk patients following radical prostatectomy

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 515-519

  Swanson, Gregory P ^a   Thompson, Ian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiation; Prostate cancer; Radical prostatectomy; Salvage

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; DISEASE COURSE; ERADICATION THERAPY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REVIEW;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RISK FACTORS; SALVAGE THERAPY;

EID: 36348950894     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2007.05.022     Document Type: Review

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