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Article: Radiation, radical prostatectomy: neither had better quality of life.(Urology)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
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SAN ANTONIO -- A prospective, randomized study comparing external beam radiotherapy with radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer found no clear winner in terms of quality of life during the 2 years after treatment, Savino M. Di Stasi, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association.
Overall health-related quality of life declined in the first month and returned to baseline in 6-12 months regardless of therapy, said Dr. Di Stasi of Tor Vergata University, in Rome. During the first month, patients receiving radical prostatectomy reported a significantly worse quality of life, compared with patients receiving external beam ...