Prostate Cancer

Findings in prostate cancer reported from Johns Hopkins University

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 27th, 2007

According to a study from the United States, "OBJECTIVES To assess the prognostic effect of perineural invasion (PNI) for patients undergoing external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer. METHODS We evaluated 657 consecutive patients who had undergone external beam radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer."

"The clinical/treatment parameters used for analysis included PNI, clinical stage, biopsy Gleason score, pretreatment prostate-specific antigen, radiation dose, and androgen deprivation. The primary endpoint was biochemical recurrence defined by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group-American Society for Therapeutic Radiology Oncology Phoenix consensus;...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-11-27)

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