Changing trends in national practice for external beam radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate cancer: 1999 Patterns of Care survey for prostate cancer.

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Published in Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys on July 15, 2004

Authors

Michael J Zelefsky1, Jennifer Moughan, Jean Owen, Anthony L Zietman, Mack Roach, Gerald E Hanks

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA. zelefskm@mskcc.org

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