OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the long-term oncological outcome of radical prostatectomy for patients with high-risk prostate cancer.
METHODS: Among 378 patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy at our hospital, 189 had high-risk prostate cancer defined as presenting with at least one of the following high-risk factors: prostate-specific antigen >20 ng/ml, clinical T3 and biopsy Gleason score ≥8.
RESULTS: The median follow-up was 8.1 years. Of all patients, 106 and 61 had one and two high-risk factors, respectively, and the remaining 22 had all three high-risk factors. Pathological examination of the prostatectomy specimens revealed organ-confined disease, specimen-confined disease and lymph node metastasis in 80 (42%), 102 (54%) and 22 (12%), respectively. The 10-year prostate-specific antigen failure-free and local progression-free survival rates were 48.5 and 87.6%, respectively. The 10-year cancer-specific and overall survival rates were 94.1 and 88.7%, respectively. The 10-year prostate-specific antigen failure-free survivals of patients with one, two and all three high-risk factors were 58.5, 39.9 and 22.7%, respectively (P = 0.0001). Of the 106 patients with one high-risk factor only, the high Gleason score group had the best 10-year prostate-specific antigen failure-free survival (69.1%); in particular, that of patients without Gleason grade 5 was 100% (P= 0.032).
CONCLUSIONS: Approximately half of patients with high-risk prostate cancer can be cured by radical prostatectomy without any adjuvant treatment. Radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer provides good long-term local cancer control and cancer-specific survival. In particular, radical prostatectomy for patients with only one high-risk factor can be considered a valuable therapeutic option as the first treatment.
Written by:
Yamamoto S, Kawakami S, Yonese J, Fujii Y, Urakami S, Masuda H, Numao N, Ishikawa Y, Kohno A, Fukui I. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Cancer Institute Hospital.
Reference: Jpn J Clin Oncol. 2012 Mar 28. Epub ahead of print.
doi: 10.1093/jjco/hys043
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22457326
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