New paper below.
As someone who received treatment for a single spiny met at L5 last year, I am naturally interested in the subject.
"Reports on surgical and radiation treatment for low-volume metastatic recurrence have shown promising results, with definitive cure in few but a relevant delay of androgen-deprivation therapy with both treatment methods."
It's a Belgian paper, which might explain the curious phrasing in the Abstract.
First time I have seen a paper from the "Arab Journal of Urology". I doubt that any of our doctors will read it.
-Patrick
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/275...
Arab J Urol. 2016 Jul 20;14(3):179-82. doi: 10.1016/j.aju.2016.06.004. eCollection 2016.
Oligometastatic prostate cancer: Metastases-directed therapy?
Van Poppel H1, De Meerleer G1, Joniau S1.
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1Department of Urology and Radiation Oncology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Abstract
Since the introduction of anatomical and functional imaging with multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and choline or prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography-computed tomography, we are able to diagnose a previously unknown disease, the oligometastatic prostate cancer after local therapy. Reports on surgical and radiation treatment for low-volume metastatic recurrence have shown promising results, with definitive cure in few but a relevant delay of androgen-deprivation therapy with both treatment methods. Obviously, these results need to be validated with prospective randomised data.
KEYWORDS:
(SB)RT, (stereotactic body) radiotherapy; ADT, androgen-deprivation therapy; BRFS, biochemical recurrence-free survival; CPFS, clinical progression-free survival; CSS, cancer-specific survival; LND, lymph node dissection; Lymph node dissection; Oligometastatic prostate cancer; PET, positron emission tomography; Stereotactic body radiotherapy
PMID: 27547457 DOI: 10.1016/j.aju.2016.06.004
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