Patterns of use and patient characteristics: brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer in octo- and nonagenarians

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• 作者：Roger Valdivieso ; Katharina Boehm ; Malek Meskawi…
• 关键词：Localized prostate cancer ; Octo ; and nonagenarians ; Elderly patients ; Brachytherapy ; Survival ; Prostate cancer
• 刊名：World Journal of Urology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：33
• 期：12
• 页码：1985-1991
• 全文大小：481 KB
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• 作者单位：Roger Valdivieso (1) (2)
  Katharina Boehm (1) (3)
  Malek Meskawi (1) (2)
  Alessandro Larcher (1) (4)
  Zhe Tian (1)
  Marie-Elise Parent (5) (6)
  Philip Wong (7)
  Markus Graefen (3)
  Francesco Montorsi (4)
  Maxine Sun (1)
  Fred Saad (2)
  Pierre I. Karakiewicz (1) (2)
  
  1. Cancer Prognostics and Health Outcomes Unit, University of Montreal Health Center, 264 Blvd. Rene-Levesque E. Room 228, Montreal, QC, H2X 1P1, Canada
  2. Department of Urology, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
  3. Martini-Clinic, Prostate Cancer Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  4. Division of Oncology, Unit of Urology, URI, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
  5. INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laval, QC, Canada
  6. University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada
  7. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Montreal Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada
  
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Urology and Andrology
  Nephrology
  Oncology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-8726

文摘

Background Brachytherapy (BT) is a widely used treatment modality for elderly patients with localized prostate cancer (PCa).