Quality of Life after Radical Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Longitudinal Study from a Randomised Trial of External Beam Radiotherapy Alone or in Combination with High Dose Rate Brachytherapy

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 321-327

  Hoskin, P J ^a   Rojas, A M ^a   Ostler, P J ^a   Hughes, R ^a   Lowe, G J ^a   Bryant, L ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High dose rate brachytherapy boost; Hypofractionation; Prostate cancer; Quality of life; Randomised trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANDROGEN DEPRIVATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PENIS ERECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876142286     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: 14332981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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