Open AccessRadiation-associated hypertension in patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer
Author(s) -
Mark Farrugia,
Malcolm D. Mattes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of radiotherapy in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-1131
pISSN - 1460-3969
DOI - 10.1017/s1460396919000670
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , radiation therapy , blood pressure , androgen deprivation therapy , prostate , cohort , cancer , oncology , urology
Patients undergoing prostate radiation therapy were observed to have elevated blood pressures in clinic. Therefore, we sought to further characterise this phenomenon.