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Salvage local therapy for radiation-recurrent prostate cancer – where are we?

INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer is the most frequent cancer among males in Europe and a leading cause of cancer deaths, with similar proportion in other developed countries. For more than twenty years, external-beam radiation therapy, alongside with radical prostatectomy, has been used as a primary ra...

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Autores principales: Zdrojowy, Romuald, Dembowski, Janusz, Małkiewicz, Bartosz, Tupikowski, Krzysztof, Krajewski, Wojciech
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Polish Urological Association 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5057051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27729992
http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2016.832
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer is the most frequent cancer among males in Europe and a leading cause of cancer deaths, with similar proportion in other developed countries. For more than twenty years, external-beam radiation therapy, alongside with radical prostatectomy, has been used as a primary radical therapeutic approach for localized prostate cancer. Yet, EBRT failures relate to 22–69% following curative radiotherapy (± androgen deprivation therapy). Additionally, a proportion of these men will have a biopsy-proven local recurrence. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The Medline and Web of Science databases were searched without a time limit during March 2016 using the terms ‘prostate cancer’ in conjunction with ‘radiotherapy’, ‘recurrence’, ‘biochemical’, ‘salvage’, ‘brachytherapy’, ‘prostatectomy’, ‘HIFU’, ‘cryotherapy’ and ‘focal’. The search was limited to the English, Polish, German and Spanish literature. RESULTS: Currently, salvage treatment after failed radiotherapy includes radical prostatectomy, brachytherapy and ablative whole-gland therapies, such as cryotherapy and high intensity focused ultrasound. New approaches, so called focal salvage therapy, involve ablation of only the zone of recurrence in order to decrease tissue injury and therefore to diminish morbidity. CONCLUSIONS: At present no authoritative recommendations can be concluded because of the absence of randomized data with standardized definitions and protocols. Nevertheless, we believe that local salvage treatment should be at least considered in patients after biochemical relapse following radiotherapy.