Should the patient with positive margins after radical prostatectomy receive adjuvant radiation?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1837-1838

  Swanson, Scott K ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 77957846473     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2010.08.050     Document Type: Note

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