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Would you ever consider chemoradiation for bladder preservation in someone who has had prior LDR prostate brachytherapy?

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Radiation Oncology · Harvard Medical School

The board answer is no, he should have a cystoprostatectomy, but that is often not practical. Bladder cancers may arise in men after the brachytherapy either as a result of that treatment or incidentally. The radiation induced cancers appear more than ten years later by which time the men may be in ...

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