RADIATION FOR PROSTATE CANCER INCREASES RISK OF RECTAL CANCER
CareToLive | Help Men With Late Stage Prostate Cancer | Provenge Now! wrote an interesting post today on
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New York Janice Hopkins Tanne Men with prostate cancer treated with external beam radiation have a 70% higher risk of developing rectal cancer than men who have surgery, a US study has found. Radiation is now used for about 17% of patients with prostate cancer. The retrospective population based study used data from the US National Cancer Institute’s surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) register, from 1973 to 1994, and included more than 85 000 men aged 18 to 80. The participa
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