New imaging modalities may be useful to identify prostate cancer patients with small volume, limited nodal relapse ("oligo-recurrent") potentially amenable to local treatments (radiotherapy, surgery) with the aim of long-term control of the disease, even in a condition traditionally considered prognostically unfavorable.
This report reviews the new diagnostic tools and the main published data about the role of surgery and radiation therapy in this particular subgroup of patients.
Written by:
De Bari B, Alongi F, Buglione M, Campostrini F, Briganti A, Berardi G, Petralia G, Bellomi M, Chiti A, Fodor A, Suardi N, Cozzarini C, Nadia DM, Scorsetti M, Orecchia R, Montorsi F, Bertoni F, Magrini SM, Jereczek-Fossa BA. Are you the author?
Radiotherapy Department, Istituto del Radio di Brescia, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Reference: Crit Rev Oncol Hematol. 2013 Nov 21. pii: S1040-8428(13)00250-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2013.11.003
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24315428
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