For suitable patients, Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) allows shorter treatment courses, fewer side effects, and better treatment outcomes. Until recently patients with even relatively favourable prostate cancers, who were unsuitable for surgery or who opted for radiotherapy, were treated with seven- or eight-week courses of radiation.
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