Prospective preference assessment of patients' willingness to participate in a randomized controlled trial of intensity-modulated radiotherapy versus proton therapy for localized prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Shah, Anand ^a   Efstathiou, Jason A ^c   Paly, Jonathan J ^c   Halpern, Scott D ^b   Bruner, Deborah W ^d   Christodouleas, John P ^a   Coen, John J ^c   Deville Jr , Curtiland ^a   Vapiwala, Neha ^a   Shipley, William U ^c   Zietman, Anthony L ^c   Hahn, Stephen M ^a   Bekelman, Justin E ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Prostate cancer; Proton beam therapy; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

DISEASES; PROTON BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TRAVEL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ALTRUISM; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859823555     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.11.072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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