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Second malignancies after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis

This systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the risk of second primary malignancies following radiotherapy for prostate cancer. Analyzing 21 observational studies, the research found that radiotherapy, particularly external beam radiotherapy, was associated with increased risks of bladder (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 1.67), colorectal (HR 1.79), and rectal cancers (HR 1.79)

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External beam radiotherapy versus radical prostatectomy for clinical stage T1-2 prostate cancer: therapeutic implications of stratification by pretreatment PSA levels and biopsy Gleason scores

A study published in Cancer Journal for Scientists and Clinicians (1997) compared the efficacy of external beam radiotherapy (RT) and radical prostatectomy (RP) for treating clinical stage T1-2 prostate cancer. The study included 551 patients and found that RP led to a 57% 5-year biochemical relapse-free survival rate, while RT

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