Post-radical prostatectomy management options for the positive surgical margin: Argument for adjuvant radiotherapy

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-88

  Chin, Joseph L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiotherapy; Positive surgical margins

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57849090445     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2008.04.005     Document Type: Review

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