Benefit of combining radiation and hormone therapy in the treatment of prostate cancer
1st Nov 2005, 11:15 GMT
Doctors in Canada have discovered that treating high-risk prostate cancer patients with radiation therapy and adding hormone therapy for more than one year allows patients to live longer, have better control of their prostate specific antigen levels and lowers the rate of death specifically from prostate cancer
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