Patient perspectives regarding the value of total skin electron beam therapy for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma/mycosis fungoides: a pilot study.

Purpose: Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL) represents a group of lymphoid malignancies involving the skin with mycosis fungoides being most common. This prospective study was initiated to evaluate perceptions of total skin electron beam therapy (TSEBT) by patients with mycosis fungoides who had failed at least 3 prior therapies.

Materials And Methods: Before the start of TSEBT, at 1 month and 6 months after the completion of treatment, patients completed an anonymous questionnaire for each of the prior therapies and for TSEBT.

Surgery versus implant for early prostate cancer: results from a single institution, 1992-2005.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the biochemical disease-free survival rates for radical prostatectomy versus transperineal ultrasound-guided prostate implant for patients with early prostate cancer treated at a single institution from 1992 through 2005.

Materials And Methods: The charts of 741 patients with early prostate cancer (350 implant and 391 surgery) treated from 1992 through 2005 were retrospectively reviewed. Surgery patients were treated by members of the academic Urology Section at Yale University School of Medicine.