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To report outcomes and risk factors of high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy combined with external beam radiotherapy with or without androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in prostate cancer patients.This multi-institutional retrospective analysis comprised 3424 patients with localized prostate cancer at 16 Asian hospitals. One-thirds (27.7%) of patients received only neoadjuvant ADT, whereas almost half...
Study Type – Prognostic (case series)
Level of Evidence 4
What's known on the subject? and What does the study add?
There have been no reports on the application of HDR‐BT in Japan as salvage therapy for recurrence following radiotherapy.
Our data showed that salvage HDR‐BT is effective as an option for treatment of local prostate cancer recurrence after radiotherapy.
OBJECTIVE• To assess the preliminary...
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