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Howard M. Sandler, MD, and Christopher Sweeney, MBBS, on Results of the RTOG 0521 Trial on Localized, High-Risk Prostate Cancer

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Christopher Sweeney, MBBS, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Howard M. Sandler, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discuss the improvement of overall survival with the use of adjuvant chemotherapy following androgen suppression and radiotherapy (Abstract LBA5002).



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