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Adjuvant postoperative radiotherapy following radical prostatectomy: is now the time?

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boxed-textBolla M et al. (2005) Postoperative radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy: a randomised controlled trial (EORTC trial 22911). Lancet 366: 572–578

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