Utilization of prostate brachytherapy for low risk prostate cancer: Is the decline overstated?

Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 289-293

  Safdieh, Joseph ^a,b   Wong, Andrew ^a,b   Weiner, Joseph P ^a,b   Schwartz, David ^a,b   Schreiber, David ^a,b  

^a NY Harbor Campus ^*  (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Low Risk; NCDB; Prostate Cancer.

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; RESIDENTIAL HOME;

EID: 84983685011     PISSN: 1689832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/jcb.2016.61942     Document Type: Article

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