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The Effect of Hormonal Manipulation on Urinary Function Following Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy by Gregory S Merrick; Wayne M Butler; Kent E Wallner; Brian Murray; Zachariah Allen; Jonathan H Lief; Robert W Galbreath is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Purpose: To evaluate the effect of hormonal manipulation on catheter dependency, the resolution of urinary symptomatology, and the need for postbrachytherapy transurethral/transincisional resection (turp/tuip). ## Methods and materials: Seven hundred sixteen consecutive patients (median follow-up, 29 months) underwent brachytherapy for clinical t1b-t3a (1997 ajcc) prostate cancer from january 1998 through august 2002. of the evaluated cohort, 400 patients were hormone naïve, 227 received short-course cytoreductive ( 6 months) hormonal therapy. an alpha-blocker was initiated prior to implantation and continued at least until the international prostate symptom score (i-pss) returned to baseline levels. evaluated parameters included age, t-stage, preimplant i-pss, ultrasound volume, treatment planning volume, hormonal status, supplemental external beam radiation therapy (xrt), isotope, urethral dose, total implant activity, d90, and v100/150/200. catheter dependency and the incidence of turp/tuip were also evaluated. ## Results: Six hundred fifty three patients (91.2%) had the urinary catheter permanently removed on day 0 with 15 patients (2.1%) requiring a catheter beyond 4 days.
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- Author
- Gregory S Merrick; Wayne M Butler; Kent E Wallner; Brian Murray; Zachariah Allen; Jonathan H Lief; Robert W Galbreath
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1538-4721)
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)