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Neha Vapiwala, MD, on Prostate Cancer: Imaging and the Decision to Treat With Radiation

2020 ASTRO Annual Meeting

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Neha Vapiwala, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania, who served as a discussant for LBA1, summarizes her review of this study of patients with prostate cancer who had biochemical recurrence in the post-prostatectomy setting, who were candidates for salvage radiotherapy, and who received either conventional imaging or PET scans to help determine the course of treatment.



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