Radiation therapy for prostate cancer increases the risk of subsequent rectal cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 947-950

  Margel, David ^a   Baniel, Jack ^a   Wasserberg, Nir ^a   Bar Chana, Micha ^b   Yossepowitch, Ofer ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECTUM CANCER;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RISK;

EID: 81855189668     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182382fd5     Document Type: Article

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