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Prostate Tumors Neutron therapy is appropriate for the following histologies:
Patients who may benefit from neutron therapy include:
- Adenocarcinoma patients with poor prognostic factors including
- Bulky, stage T2, T3, and T4 tumors with or without lymph nodes
- Known tumor in seminal vesicles
- Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) greater than 30
- Gleason's score 7 or higher
- Pelvic lymph node involvement, biopsy-proven or shown on CT scan
- Recurrence after surgery
- Adenocarcinoma patients with good prognostic factors
- These patients may also benefit from conformal photon therapy, brachytherapy (seeds), surgery, and/or hormone suppression therapy.
- Sarcoma patients with inoperable tumors.
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