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The Role of Radiation Therapy in Prostate Cancer Srinivasan Vijayakumar, MD, DMRT, Associate Director, Cancer Center, Professor, Head and Director of Radiation Oncology, University of Illinois at Chicago, talks about advances in radiotherapy, including 3-D conformal radiotherapy and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). He describes studies showing that hormonal therapy in conjunction with radiation therapy can improve the outcome over radiation therapy alone. He says that African-American men have more radiation-related toxicity because they often present with later-stage disease that requires a higher radiation dose. Speaker: Srinivasan Vijayakumar, MD, DMRT Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Illinois at Chhicago Duration: 33 Minute(s), 10 Seconds(s) Location: Chicago, IL

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