Reported Outcomes after Monitoring, Surgery, or Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer.
Robust data on patient-reported outcome measures comparing treatments for clinically localised prostate cancer are lacking. We investigated the effects of active monitoring, radical prostatectomy, and radical radiotherapy with hormones on patientreported outcomes.
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10-Year Outcomes after Monitoring, Surgery, or Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
This study compared active monitoring, radical prostatectomy, and external-beam radiotherapy for the treatment of clinically localised prostate cancer.
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The myths that make cancer patients shun radiotherapy
Cancer patients are turning down radiation therapy because of misplaced fears about it being toxic or causing other cancers, an Australian survey reveals.
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The scandal of prostate cancer management in Australia
Many Australian men are not having their options for treatment of early prostate cancer properly explained.
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Conservation surgery and radiation therapy in early breast cancer- An update Australian Family Physician
Breast conservation remains an effective treatment for breast cancer without a survival disadvantage to a mastectomy. The combination of advanced imaging and fast three-dimensional (3D) radiotherapy planning computer systems have allowed new techniques that deliver radiation therapy more ...
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Stage 1B cervix cancer with nodal involvement treated with primary surgery or primary radiotherapy: Patterns of failure and outcomes in a contemporary population.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate patterns of failure, overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), prognostic factors and late toxicities in node positive International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IB cervix cancer treated with curative intent.
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Predictors and rate of adjuvant radiation therapy following radical prostatectomy: A report from the Prostate Cancer Registry.
Long-term data from three randomised trials have demonstrated that adjuvant radiation therapy (ART) reduces the rate of biochemical failure in high-risk men following radical prostatectomy (RP). One of these trials has shown a survival advantage. We investigated the rate of ART in Victoria and ...
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Long-term decision regret after post-prostatectomy image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy
Decision regret (DR) may occur when a patient believes their outcome would have been better if they had decided differently about their management. Although some studies investigate DR after treatment for localised prostate cancer, none report DR in patients undergoing surgery and ...
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