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Anthony Zietman, MD, on Hormonal Therapy and Salvage Radiation: Results of RTOG 9601

2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Anthony Zietman, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses his perspective on the study of bicalutamide during and after radiotherapy in patients following radical prostatectomy and a biochemical relapse (Abstract LBA5).



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