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Cancer. 2006 Sep 1;107(5):991-8. Links
Cancer incidence after localized therapy for
prostate cancer.
Moon K
,
Stukenborg GJ
,
Keim J
,
Theodorescu D
.
Department of Urology, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.
•
CONCLUSIONS: Patients who received EBRT had
significantly higher odds of developing second cancers
both overall and in the areas that were exposed to
radiation. It is noteworthy that, to the authors'
knowledge this report shows for the first time that
,
,
despite the higher doses of radiation delivered,
patients
who received radioactive implants had the lowest
dd f d l i
d
(A t ll
o s o eve op ng secon cancers.
c ua y no
increase at all for those patients!)