The Role of Radiation Therapy in the Definitive Treatment of Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate

External-Beam Radiation for Carcinoma of the Prostate

“…The local recurrence rate was only 4% compared to 2% in the Stanford series [2], The ques tion that we have not answered is what percentage of these patients have silent recurrences, as it is not our routine policy to continue prolonged follow-up on all these patients.…”

“…Bagshaw et al [1] in Stanford were the first to describe radical radiotherapy in 1965; the group initially recorded an actuarial survival at 5 years of 54%. The figures quoted for 5-year survival range from 29 to 90%, depending on the stage [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Further data from Stan ford [7] show actuarial survival at 15 years of 35 and 18 % for disease limited to the prostate and with extracapsular extension, respectively.…”

Comparison of Endocrine and Radiation Therapy in Locally Advanced Prostatic Cancer

“…For patients with normal sexual function, radiotherapy gives a good chance to remain sexually potent following treat ment, because testosterone levels remain unchanged [20]. Sexual function following radiation has been main tained in 59-69% of patients [21,22], Patients with no métastasés treated by radiotherapy can still avail them selves of estrogens or orchiectomy in case of progression. There is a possibility that radiotherapy is curative in patients with locally advanced prostatic carcinoma, whereas estrogens and orchiectomy have to be consid ered as palliative.…”

Acute Side Effects after Dose-Escalation Treatment of Prostate Cancer Using the New Urethral Catheter BeamCath ® Technique

“…Others have also shown that low acute morbidity mostly results in a decrease in late complications (2,18).…”