Patient-Reported Sexual Survivorship Following High-Dose Image-Guided Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer.

CONCLUSIONS: Patient-reported pretreatment sexual function and comorbidities enables stratification and prediction of erectile function. EPIC subset questions with baseline comorbidities may potentially serve as a quick and practical clinical tool for predicting sexual survivorship.
PMID: 31005217 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Radiotherapy and Oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology - April 23, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Holtzman AL, Bryant CM, Mendenhall NP, Mendenhall WM, Nichols RC, Henderson RH, Figura N, Morris CG, Williams CR, Li Z, Hoppe BS Tags: Radiother Oncol Source Type: research