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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 16, Pages 2225-2229Publisher
AMER SOC CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.09.6495
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA76429, CA76132, CA74647, CA67575, CA66636, CA58882, CA58861, CA58723, CA58658, CA58416, CA46441, CA46282, CA46136, CA46113, CA45377, CA42777, CA38926, CA37981, CA35431, CA35261, CA35178, CA35176, CA35119, CA35090, CA32102, CA27057, CA23318, CA22433, CA21661, CA20319, CA14028, CA12644, CA12213, CA04919, CA04920, CA11083, CA76447] Funding Source: Medline
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Purpose Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) trial 8794 demonstrated that adjuvant radiation reduces the risk of biochemical (prostate-specific antigen [PSA]) treatment failure by 50% over radical prostatectomy alone. In this analysis, we stratified patients as to their preradiation PSA levels and correlated it with outcomes such as PSA treatment failure, local recurrence, and distant failure, to serve as guidelines for future research. Patients and Methods Four hundred thirty-one subjects with pathologically advanced prostate cancer (extraprostatic extension, positive surgical margins, or seminal vesicle invasion) were randomly assigned to adjuvant radiotherapy or observation. Results Three hundred seventy-four eligible patients had immediate postprostatectomy and follow-up PSA data. Median follow-up was 10.2 years. For patients with a postsurgical PSA of <= 0.2 ng/mL, radiation was associated with reductions in the 10-year risk of biochemical treatment failure (72% to 42%), local failures (20% to 7%), and distant failures (12% to 4%). For patients with a postsurgical PSA between higher than 0.2 and <= 1.0 ng/mL, reductions in the 10-year risk of biochemical failure (80% to 73%), local failures (25% to 9%), and distant failures (16% to 12%) were realized. In patients with postsurgical PSA higher than 1.0, the respective findings were 94% versus 100%, 28% versus 9%, and 44% versus 18%. Conclusion The pattern of treatment failure in high-risk patients is predominantly local with a surprisingly low incidence of metastatic failure. Adjuvant radiation to the prostate bed reduces the risk of metastatic disease and biochemical failure at all postsurgical PSA levels. Further improvement in reducing local treatment failure is likely to have the greatest impact on outcome in high-risk patients after prostatectomy.
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