RT Journal
A1 Aaronson DS, Odisho AY, Hills N, et al
T1 Proton beam therapy and treatment for localized prostate cancer: If you build it, they will come
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD February 13
VO 172
IS 3
SP 280
OP 283
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.711
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.711
AB 
The number of treatment options for localized prostate cancer continues to expand, amidst growing concern regarding overdiagnosis and overtreatment of low-risk disease.1- 3 Treatment patterns, however, may be driven by availability of novel technologies rather than by clinical indications. We aimed to examine regional treatment choices of men diagnosed as having localized prostate cancer living inside or outside of a defined hospital referral region containing a proton beam cyclotron in California.