Intermediate-Risk: Do You Need Hormone Therapy With Radiation? | [Video]

Dose-Escalated Radiotherapy Alone or in Combination With Short-Term Androgen Deprivation for Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer: Results of a Phase III Multi-Institutional Trial: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37104748/

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0:39 Should hormone therapy always accompany radiation therapy?
6:24 Should age play a role in deciding whether or not to get short-term hormone therapy?
8:01 At what point does short-term hormone therapy become with the side effects?
9:55 Is it ever appropriate to delay hormone therapy after radiation?
11:32 Alex’s conclusions
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