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SUBMITTER: Tsubokura T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6043516 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tsubokura Takuji T Yamazaki Hideya H Masui Koji K Sasaki Naomi N Shimizu Daisuke D Suzuki Gen G Nakamura Satoaki S Yamada Kei K Okihara Koji K Shiraishi Takumi T Yoshida Ken K Nishikawa Tatsuyuki T Okabe Haruumi H
Scientific reports 20180712 1
To compare the outcome of low-dose rate brachytherapy (LDR-BT) and image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IG-IMRT) for localized prostate cancer, we examined 488 LDR-BT and 269 IG-IMRT patients. IG-IMRT treated older and advanced disease with more hormonal therapy than LDR-BT, which excluded T3b-T4 tumor and initial PSA > 50 ng/ml. The actuarial five-year biochemical failure-free survival rate was 88.7% and 96.7% (p = 0.0003) in IG-IMRT and LDR-BT, respectively; it was 88.2% (85.1% for I ...[more]