Pieces of Interest from COMP for the Week of August 22 - Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy Ups Risks for a Second Cancer/Reflections from the 2021 COMP Publication Impact Prize/ Long-duration Spaceflight is Bad for the Bones
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- The risk of developing a second primary cancer after prostate cancer treatment is higher after radiation therapy compared with nonradiation therapies, investigators report.
- Read reflections from the 2021 COMP Publication Impact Prize in the July issue of InterACTIONS!
- A study into bone loss in astronauts returning from long spaceflights has shown that some may have incomplete bone recovery even after one year back on Earth, with sustained losses equivalent to 10 years of normal age-related bone loss on Earth.
Published on August 22, 2022
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