brachytherapy for prostate cancer
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Indications
- prostate cancer
- primary treatment in low-risk prostate cancer
- adjunctive treatment to external-beam radiotherapy & androgen deprivation in high-risk prostate cancer[1]
Clinical significance
- no survival advantage over external-beam radiotherapy
More general terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chin J, Rumble RB, Kollmeier M et al Brachytherapy for Patients With Prostate Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology/Cancer Care Ontario Joint Guideline Update. J of Clinocal Oncology. March 27, 2017 <PubMed> PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28346805 <Internet> http://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2016.72.0466