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Howard M. Sandler, MD, on Prostate Cancer: Results From RTOG 0415

2015 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Howard M. Sandler, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, discusses this phase III noninferiority study comparing two fractionation schedules in patients with low-risk prostate cancer (Abstract LBA6).



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