Quality of life two years after radical prostatectomy, prostate brachytherapy or external beam radiotherapy for clinically localised prostate cancer: The catalan institute of oncology/bellvitge hospital experience

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 470-478

  Guedea, Ferran ^a   Ferrer, Montserrat ^c   Pera, Joan ^a   Aguiló, Ferrán ^b   Boladeras, Anna ^a   Suárez, José Francisco ^b   Cunillera, Oriol ^c   Ferrer, Ferrán ^a   Pardo, Yolanda ^c   Martínez, Evelyn ^a   Ventura, Montse ^a  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; HRQOL; Prostate cancer; Prostatectomy; Quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 73349116538     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: 16993055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-009-0387-x     Document Type: Article

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