Changes in patterns of practice for prostate cancer radiotherapy in Italy 1995-2003. A survey of the Prostate Cancer Study Group of the Italian Radiation Oncology Society.

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Published in Tumori on March 28, 2014

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Ludovica Pegurri, Michela Buglione, Giovanni Girelli, Alessia Guarnieri, Icro Meattini, Umberto Ricardi, Monica Mangoni, Pietro Gabriele, Rita Bellavita, Marco Krengli, Alberto Bonetta, Emanuela Cagna, Feisal Bunkheila, Simona Borghesi, Marco Signor, Adriano Di Marco, Filippo Bertoni, Marco Stefanacci, Roberto Gatta, Berardino De Bari, Stefano Maria Magrini

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