Surgery vs. radiotherapy in localized prostate cancer. Which is best?

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Welz, Stefan ^a   Nyazi, Maximilian ^a   Belka, Claus ^b   Ganswindt, Ute ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53149136233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-3-23     Document Type: Note

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