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Adjuvant Radiotherapy after Radical Prostatectomy: Indications, Results and Side Effects

Author(s) -

Dirk Bottke,

Thomas Wiegel

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

urologia internationalis

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.771

H-Index - 53

eISSN - 1423-0399

pISSN - 0042-1138

DOI - 10.1159/000099336

Subject(s) - medicine , prostatectomy , radiation therapy , urology , prostate cancer , prostate , randomized controlled trial , biochemical recurrence , adjuvant , prostate specific antigen , oncology , cancer , surgery

Within 5 years following radical prostatectomy, between 15 and 60% of patients with pT3 prostate carcinomas show an increasing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level as a sign of local and/or systemic tumor progression. Apart from a large number of retrospective investigations, available results are present only from three randomized studies which have either been completely published or are only in abstract form.

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