| Autor: |
Leach, Gary E., Cooper, J. Fenimore, Kagan, A. Robert, Snyder, Richard, Forsythe, Alan |
| Zdroj: |
The Journal of Urology; September 1982, Vol. 128 Issue: 3 p505-509, 5p |
| Abstrakt: |
From 1968 through 1975, 159 patients with stages A, B and C adenocarcinoma of the prostate were treated with supervoltage radiation therapy. A median dose of 7,200 rad was given. The influence upon survival of grade, stage and a positive biopsy result after irradiation is analyzed. Over-all survival is a patently imprecise test of local treatment because patients die of intercurrent disease and are alive with metastases for significant intervals. The classification of survival with no evidence of recurrent disease excluded those patients dying of intercurrent disease. Therefore, the rate of survival free of disease always will be greater than the over-all survival rate in these patients, and a certain percentage of the patients without evidence of cancer will harbor subclinical disease. |
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