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Published on: February 6, 2019
Radiotherapy in the management of common genitourinary malignancies
Joycelyn L Speight1, Mack Roach
1Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, H1031, 1600 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. speight@radonc17.ucsf.edu
Abstract:
A continued role for radiation therapy in the multidisciplinary management of genitourinary malignancies seems certain. Treatment outcomes continue to improve, accompanied by diminishing rates of toxicity. With continued technologic advances in the delivery of radiation, including the use of adaptive radiotherapy, the discovery and application of novel treatment agents, and the combined efforts of urologists, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists, patients who have genitourinary malignancies have an excellent chance of cure.
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