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Radiotherapy, androgen deprivation timing and implications for prostate cancer treatment during COVID-19

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

What The Study Did: National Cancer Database data from 2004 to 2014 were used to examine the association between overall survival and timing of radiotherapy relative to androgen deprivation therapy in patients with prostate cancer.

Authors: Vinayak Muralidhar, M.D., M.Sc., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.3545)

Editor's Note: The article includes conflicts of interest and funding/support disclosures. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, conflict of interest and financial disclosures, and funding and support.

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