Brachytherapy
Volume 6, Issue 4 , Pages 267-271, October 2007

Androgen deprivation-mediated cytoreduction before interstitial brachytherapy for prostate cancer does not abrogate the elevated risk of urinary morbidity associated with larger initial prostate volume

  • Joshua H. Petit

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Tel.: +1-617-667-2345; fax: +1-617-667-4990.
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  • Clifford Gluck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • W.S. Kiger III

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • D. Laury Henry

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Carol Karasiewicz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • James A. Talcott

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Solomon Berg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Edward J. Holupka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Irving D. Kaplan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Received 3 April 2007; received in revised form 12 July 2007; accepted 23 August 2007. published online 25 October 2007.

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 These data were presented as an oral abstract at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO).

PII: S1538-4721(07)00246-2

doi:10.1016/j.brachy.2007.08.007

Brachytherapy
Volume 6, Issue 4 , Pages 267-271, October 2007

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