Prostate Cancer Patients Are Recurrence Free After 5 Years

All About: Prostate Cancer Treatment and Symptoms Submitted by ruzik_tuzik on Jul 3rd, 2009 Prostate Cancer Treatment and Symptoms Prostate cancer patients who receive brachytherapy and remain free of disease for five years or greater are unlikely to have a recurrence at 10 years, according to a study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Brachytherapy is the placement of radioactive sources in or just next to a tumor either permanently or temporarily, depending upon the cancer. In the study, researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center Departments of Radiation Oncology and Urology in New York followed 742 prostate cancer patients who were treated with brachytherapy alone, brachytherapy and hormonal therapy, or combined... [read full story]                    

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