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Adjuvant Radiotherapy in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Surgery: The Impact of Age and Tumor Characteristics
- Source :
- European urology focus. 1(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background: The overall mortality (OM) and cancer-specific mortality (CSM) benefits of adjuvant radiotherapy (aRT) in treating prostate cancer (PCa) patients with adverse pathologic characteristics at radical prostatectomy (RP) are unclear. Objective: To test the impact of aRT on survival in PCa patients treated with RP according to adverse pathologic characteristics (Gleason score [GS] 8-10; pT3b/4, lymph node invasion [LNI]) and age categories (
- Subjects :
- Cancer-specific survival
medicine.medical_specialty
Framingham Risk Score
Prostate cancer
Proportional hazards model
business.industry
Prostatectomy
medicine.medical_treatment
Urology
Hazard ratio
Competing risk
medicine.disease
Radical prostatectomy
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Cohort
Epidemiology
medicine
Risk score
Adjuvant radiotherapy
business
Lymph node
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 24054569
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European urology focus
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0e476b19702a61edf0a766371e923726