Adjuvant radiation treatment after prostatectomy. Where do we stand?

Radiation Therapy after Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer: Evaluation of Complications and Influence of Radiation Timing on Outcomes in a Large, Population-Based Cohort

PURPOSE To evaluate the influence of timing of salvage and adjuvant radiation therapy on outcomes after prostatectomy for prostate cancer. METHODS Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked database, we identified prostate cancer patients diagnosed during 1995-2007 who had one or more adverse pathological features after prostatectomy. The final cohort of 6,137 eligi...

Radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer: evaluation of complications and influence of radiation timin

To evaluate the influence of timing of salvage and adjuvant radiation therapy on outcomes after prostatectomy for prostate cancer. Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked database, we identified prostate cancer patients diagnosed during 1995-2007 who had one or more adverse pathological features after prostatectomy. The final cohort of 6,137 eligible patients inclu...

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Outcomes for radiation therapy after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer: what really matters?

This comment should start with the acknowledgement that we are firm advocates of the value of radiotherapy (RT) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in many patients with prostate cancer. However, we are concerned that a published and recently presented study (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, EORTC, Trial 22911) by Bolla et al. [1,2], of adjuvant RT vs observation for pat...

Quality of Radiation Therapy Referral and Utilisation Post-prostatectomy: A Population-based Study of Time Trends.

AIMS Adjuvant radiotherapy post-prostatectomy has been shown to benefit patients with adverse pathology. It remains unclear whether salvage radiotherapy confers equivalent outcomes. Practice guidelines recommend referral to radiation oncology within 6 months after prostatectomy to discuss adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy. The study objectives were to assess, at a population level: (i) post-pro...