A Bright Future Ahead Using Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer
Historically, improved technologies were used primarily to deliver a higher total dose of radiotherapy (RT) for prostate cancer. For lower risk groups, such protracted RT is well tolerated but inconvenient and costly. These same risk groups migrated to surgery in the 1990s with the promise of preserving potency with the “nerve-sparing prostatectomy.” Long term data […]