Adding radiation to hormone therapy for prostate cancer treatment will increase survival chances
Monday, October 25, 2010 - 12:51
in Health & Medicine
Prostate cancer patients who are treated with a combination of hormone therapy and radiation have a substantially improved chance of survival compared to patients who do not receive radiation, according to interim results of the largest randomized study of its kind presented at the plenary session, November 1, 2010, at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
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