A Systematic Review of the Efficacy and Toxicity of Brachytherapy Boost Combined with External Beam Radiotherapy for Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer

European urology oncology - Tập 7 Số 4 - Trang 677-696 - 2024
Finbar Slevin1,2, Fabio Zattoni3, Enrico Checcucci4, Marcus Cumberbatch5, Antonio Nacchia6, Philip Cornford7, Erik Briers8, Gert De Meerleer9, Maria De Santis10,11, Daniel Eberli12, Giorgio Gandaglia13, Silke Gillessen14,15, Nikolaos Grivas16, Matthew Liew17, Estefania E. Linares Espinós18, Jan Oldenburg19,20, Daniëla E. Oprea-Lager21, Guillaume Ploussard22, Olivier Rouvière23, Ivo G. Schoots24, Emma Jane Smith25, Johan Stranne26,27, Derya Tilki28,29,30, Catrin Tudur Smith31, Roderick C.N. van den Bergh32, Inge M. van Oort33, Thomas Wiegel34, Yuhong Yuan35, Thomas Van den Broeck36, Ann Henry1,2
1Leeds Cancer Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
2University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
3Department Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Urologic Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
4Division of Urology, Department of Oncology, School of Medicine, San Luigi Hospital, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
5Academic Urology Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
6Urology Department, IRCCS CROB, Rionero in Vulture, Italy
7Department of Urology, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK
8Hasselt, Belgium
9Department of Radiotherapy, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
10Department of Urology, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
11Department of Urology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
12Department of Urology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
13Department of Urology, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
14Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
15Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, EOC, Bellinzona, Switzerland
16Department of Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
17Department of Urology, Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, Wigan, UK
18Department of Urology, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain
19Department of Oncology, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
20Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
21Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
22Department of Urology, La Croix du Sud Hospital, Toulouse, France
23Hospices Civils de Lyon, Department of Urinary and Vascular Imaging, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
24Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
25European Association of Urology Guidelines Office, Arnhem, The Netherlands
26Department of Urology, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
27Department of Urology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden
28Department of Urology, Koc University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
29Department of Urology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
30Martini-Klinik Prostate Cancer Center, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
31Department of Health Data Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
32Department of Urology, St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, The Netherlands
33Radboud University Medical Center, Department of Urology, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
34University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
35Department of Medicine, Health Science Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
36GZA Hospitals, Antwerp, Belgium

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