Radiotherapy for Elderly Patients Aged ≥75 Years with Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer—Is There a Role of Brachytherapy?

Radiotherapy for Elderly Patients Aged ≥75 Years with Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer—Is There a Role of Brachytherapy?

We compared radiotherapy outcomes between 241 elderly patients aged ≥75 years and 867 younger controls (age <75 years) with clinically localized prostate cancer. The elderly group showed an equivalent actuarial seven-year biochemical failure-free survival rate (7y-bNED) (94.9%) to the younger...

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Main Authors: Hideya Yamazaki, Koji Masui, Gen Suzuki, Satoaki Nakamura, Norihiro Aibe, Daisuke Shimizu, Tatsuyuki Nishikawa, Haruumi Okabe, Ken Yoshida, Tadayuki Kotsuma, Eiichi Tanaka, Keisuke Otani, Yasuo Yoshioka, Kazuhiko Ogawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
prostate cancer
high dose rate
low dose rate
brachytherapy
IG-IMRT
elderly
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/7/11/424

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