Family History Of Prostate Cancer Does Not Affect Some Treatment Outcomes

Friday, January 2, 2009 - 11:14 in Health & Medicine

In a first of its kind study, a first-degree family history of prostate cancer has no impact on the treatment outcomes of prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy, also called seed implants, and patients with this type of family history have clinical and pathologic characteristics similar to men with no family history at all, according to a study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

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