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|Articles|July 1, 2003

Brachytherapy offers biochemical control at 10 years

Author(s)Mac Overmyer

Chicago-One of the first large studies to determine the 10-year efficacy of brachytherapy in men with prostate cancer shows that patients receiving a dose of at least 160 Gy have a 93% chance of being free of biochemical failure and a 95.4% chance of local control at 10 years.

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