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|Videos|October 5, 2017
ASTRO 2017: QOL Outcomes Among Prostate Cancer Treatment Options
Author(s)Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH
This video reviews 4-year quality-of-life results from a prospective, population-based study that looked at prostate cancer patients who selected either active surveillance, radical prostatectomy, or external-beam radiation.
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In this video, Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, discusses a prospective, population-based study examining 4-year quality-of-life results among prostate cancer patients who were treated with either active surveillance, radical prostatectomy, or external-beam radiation.
Chen presented results of the study (
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