Study Indicates Certain Men Benefit From Salvage Radiotherapy After Radical Prostatectomy

 11.07.2008 06:12   medicalnewstoday.com

In the June 18, 2008 edition of JAMA, Dr. Bruce Trock and associates reported on prostate cancer (CaP) specific survival following salvage radiotherapy (XRT) vs. observation in men with biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy (RP). They found a benefit to salvage XRT. Between 1982 and 2004, 926 men developed CaP recurrence following RP with staging pelvic lymphadenectomy at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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