Five-treatment radiation therapy offers an effective nonsurgical alternative for localized prostate cancer
After eight years, 91% of SBRT patients and 84% of surgery patients remained failure-free, with fewer urinary and sexual side effects after radiation.
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A study by the Royal Marsden shows that targeted radiation treatment provides a similar disease control with significantly less urinary adverse effects.
Five-treatment radiation provides excellent long-term prostate cancer control
Five-treatment stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) provided excellent long-term cancer control with fewer urinary and sexual side effects than surgery in the first randomized trial to directly compare the treatments for localized prostate cancer.
Researchers find prostate cancer treatment that is ‘as effective as’ surgery
New data suggests some patients can have a highly targeted form of radiotherapy instead of having their whole prostate removed
Five-treatment radiation therapy offers an effective nonsurgical alternative for localized prostate cancer
Five-treatment stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) provided excellent long-term cancer control with fewer urinary and sexual side effects than surgery in the first randomized trial to directly compare the treatments for localized prostate cancer.
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