Patient-reported genitourinary toxicity for long-term prostate cancer survivors treated with radiation therapy

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1964-1970

  Olsson, C E ^a   Pettersson, N ^b   Alsadius, D ^a   Wilderang U ^a   Tucker, S L ^c   Johansson, K A ^b   Steineck, G ^a,d  

^a SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSURIA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SELF REPORT; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SWEDEN; SYMPTOM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URETHRAL PAIN; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; URINARY URGENCY; URINE INCONTINENCE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION INJURIES; SELF REPORT; SURVIVORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84878569394     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.180     Document Type: Article

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