BENEFIT OF ADJUVANT RADIATION THERAPY FOR LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER WITH A POSITIVE SURGICAL MARGIN
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 163 (4) , 1178-1182
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(05)67717-8
Abstract
Purpose: Positive surgical margins are common after radical prostatectomy, and the role of adjuvant therapy in such cases is controversial. We determined the benefit of postoperative external beam ...Keywords
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