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In a patient with prostate cancer who developed prostatits after placement of fiducials, how long does one wait before initiating radiation treatments?

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Prostatitis can be difficulty to clear, especially with the introduction of a foreign body into the infected organ (i.e., the fiducials). Also, the symptoms resulting from irradiating the prostate can mimic those of prostatitis, so I want to be as certain as possible that the infection has cleared b...

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