Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 345-352 , October 2009

Patient-reported quality of life after salvage brachytherapy for radio-recurrent prostate cancer: A prospective Phase II study

  • Paul L. Nguyen

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115. Tel.: +1-617-732-6310; fax: +1-617-732-7347.
    • ,
  • Ronald C. Chen

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Radiation Oncology Program, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Jack A. Clark

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
    • Center for Health Quality, Outcomes, and Economic Research, Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital, Bedford, MA
    • ,
  • Robert A. Cormack

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Marian Loffredo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Elizabeth McMahon

      Affiliations

    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Angela U. Nguyen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • W. Warren Suh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Clare M. Tempany

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • ,
  • Anthony V. D'Amico

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Received 20 October 2008 ,Revised 16 January 2009 ,Accepted 19 January 2009.

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PII: S1538-4721(09)00199-8

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2009.01.004

Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 345-352 , October 2009

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