Radical external beam radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer in Japan: Changing trends in the patterns of care process survey

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1310-1318

  Ogawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakamura, Katsumasa ^b   Sasaki, Tomonari ^c   Onishi, Hiroshi ^d   Koizumi, Masahiko ^e   Araya, Masayuki ^d   Mukumoto, Nobutaka ^e   Teshima, Teruki ^e   Mitsumori, Michihide ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY BEPPU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Changing trend; Patterns of care study; Prostate cancer; Radical external beam radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED EQUIPMENT; CHANGING TRENDS; CONFORMAL THERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HORMONE THERAPY; LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER; MEDIAN RADIATION; PATTERNS OF CARE; PATTERNS OF CARE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RADICAL EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSIMETRY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; SURVEYS;

DISEASES;

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADICAL EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 81855192711     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.08.014     Document Type: Article

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