Background:To assess the feasibility of salvage intensity-modulated radiation Therapy (IMRT) and to examine clinical outcome.
Patients and Methods: 57 patients were treated with salvage IMRT to the prostate bed in our center from January, 2007, to February, 2010. The mean prescription dose was 68 Gy in 34 fractions. Forty-four patients received concomitant androgen deprivation.
Results: Doses to organs at risk were low without altering target volume coverage. Salvage IMRT was feasible without any grade 3 or 4 acute gastrointestinal or urinary toxicity. With a median follow-up of 21 months, one grade 2 urinary and 1 grade ≥2 rectal late toxicities were reported. Biological relapse-free survival was 96.5% (2.3% (1/44) relapsed with androgen suppression and 7.7% (1/13) without).
Conclusion: Salvage IMRT is feasible and results in low acute and chronic side-effects. Longer follow-up is warranted to draw conclusions in terms of oncologic control.
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Riou O, Fenoglietto P, Laliberté B, Menkarios C, Llacer Moscardo C, Hay MH, Ailleres N, Dubois JB, Rebillard X, Azria D. Are you the author?
Département d'Oncologie Radiothérapie, CRLC Val d'Aurelle-Paul Lamarque, Montpellier 34298, France.
Reference: ISRN Urol. 2012;2012:391705.
doi: 10.5402/2012/391705
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22567417
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