Survival Outcomes in Men with Unfavorable Intermediate-Risk and High-Risk Prostate Cancer Treated with Prostate-Only versus Whole Pelvic Radiation Therapy.
Neal AndruskaBenjamin W Fischer-ValuckMichael WatersElizabeth Juarez DiazTemitope AgabalogunEric H KimZachary L SmithRandall J BrennemanHiram A GayGerald L AndrioleJeff M MichalskiBrian C BaumannPublished in: The Journal of urology (2022)
Men with higher LN risk scores and Gleason grade benefited from WPRT. These results complement the recent POP-RT randomized trial in mostly positron emission tomography/computerized tomography-staged patients, demonstrating that a more heterogeneous population of men staged without functional imaging benefits from WPRT.
Keyphrases
- prostate cancer
- positron emission tomography
- radiation therapy
- computed tomography
- radical prostatectomy
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- middle aged
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- high resolution
- prognostic factors
- pet ct
- rectal cancer
- squamous cell carcinoma
- patient reported outcomes
- photodynamic therapy
- radiation induced
- fluorescence imaging
- electron microscopy