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Is obesity associated with biochemical recurrence in patients with prostate cancer?

Nature Clinical Practice Urology volume 5, pages 68–69 (2008)Cite this article

boxed-textStroup SP et al. (2007) Effect of obesity on prostate-specific antigen recurrence after radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer as measured by the 2006 Radiation Therapy Oncology Group–American Society for Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (RTOG–ASTRO) Phoenix consensus definition. Cancer 110: 1003–1009

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