Prostate Cancer
New prostate cancer study findings have been published by scientists at University of California
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 13th, 2008
In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To retrospectively determine if pretreatment endorectal magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings are predictive of outcome in patients who undergo external-beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Committee on Human Research approval, with waiver of the requirement for informed consent, was obtained for this HIPAA-compliant study."
"Eighty men with biopsy-proved prostate cancer (mean age, 59 years; range, 47-75 years) who underwent endorectal MR imaging of the prostate prior to external-beam radiation therapy were retrospectively identified; details of baseline tumor characteristics,...
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