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Alan Pollack, MD, on Prostate Cancer: Results From the SPPORT Trial

2018 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Alan Pollack, MD, of the University of Miami, discusses study findings on short-term androgen-deprivation therapy with or without pelvic lymph node treatment added to prostate bed–only salvage radiotherapy (Abstract LBA5).



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