External beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer
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External beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
Men with non-metastatic prostate cancer have many treatment options. For over 35 years, radiation therapy has been a mainstay of treatment for this disease. With improvements in technology and better use of pretreatment prognostic factors, such as prostate specific antigen level and Gleason score, biochemical and clinical results have steadily improved. This article reviews the current status o...
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عنوان ژورنال: CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0007-9235
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.50.6.349