Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 57-62 , January 2009

Prostate cancer control and survival in Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange

  • Lydia Everly

      Affiliations

    • Schiffler Cancer Center and Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
    • ,
  • Gregory S. Merrick

      Affiliations

    • Schiffler Cancer Center and Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Schiffler Cancer Center, Wheeling Hospital, 1 Medical Park, Wheeling, WV 26003-6300, USA. Tel.: +1-304-243-3490; fax: +1-304-243-5047.
    • ,
  • Zachariah A. Allen

      Affiliations

    • Schiffler Cancer Center and Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
    • ,
  • Wayne M. Butler

      Affiliations

    • Schiffler Cancer Center and Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
    • ,
  • Kent Wallner

      Affiliations

    • Puget Sound Healthcare Corporation, Group Health Cooperative, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    • ,
  • Jonathan H. Lief

      Affiliations

    • Schiffler Cancer Center and Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
    • ,
  • Robert W. Galbreath

      Affiliations

    • Schiffler Cancer Center and Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV
    • ,
  • Edward Adamovich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Wheeling Hospital, Wheeling, WV

Received 22 April 2008 ,Revised 9 July 2008 ,Accepted 7 August 2008.

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PII: S1538-4721(08)00604-1

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.08.001

Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 57-62 , January 2009

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