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Anders Widmark, MD, PhD, on Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer: Results From the HYPO-RT-PC Trial

2016 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Anders Widmark, MD, PhD, of the Umea University Hospital Oncology, discusses the early toxicity results from the phase III Scandinavian study on extreme hypofractionation vs conventionally fractionated radiotherapy for intermediate-risk prostate cancer. (Abstract LBA-5)



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