The treatment of prostate cancer by external beam radiotherapy
- could it be better?
Professor Les Bradbury
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Summary and website contents
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Basics of external beam radiotherapy and the 'standard' treatment.
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EBRT and hormone therapies.
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Dose escalation above 70 Gray.
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Increasing the dose fraction above 2 Gy - hypofractionation.
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Side effects from EBRT.
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PSA variation after EBRT-including PSA bounce.
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Patient check-list.
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Disease free survival calculator.
10.REVIEW 1
EBRT with hormones.
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REVIEW 2
The LQ model and hypofractionation.
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REVIEW 3
Estimating tumour volume and biopsy probabilities.
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Books and links to other websites.
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About my prostate cancer.
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Curriculum vitae.
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Contact and acknowledgements.
17. Website (pages 1 to 8) in Adobe Acrobat format.
10. REVIEW 1.
The review of trial data on hormones used in conjunction with EBRT is being rewritten to incorporate the most recent data. In the interim, web pages 3 and 4 have already been updated so that they give a good indication of the content of the review.
The treatment of prostate cancer by external beam
radiotherapy