Radiation Therapy Prolongs Life In Men With Recurrent Prostate Cancer Jun 21, 2008
Prostate Cancer-Specific Survival Following Salvage Radiotherapy vs Observation in Men With Biochemical Recurrence After Radical Prostatectomy. JAMA, 2008;299(23):2760-2769. (Science Daily)
Radiation May Help When Prostate Cancer Returns Jun 19, 2008
"We show that even men with aggressive disease that recurs after surgery seem to benefit from salvage radiotherapy," said lead researcher Bruce J. Trock, associate professor of urology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "In the past, surgeons would have said that the tumor had spread to other parts of the body and that salvage radiotherapy was not appropriate," he noted ... Among the 126 men in the study with aggressive disease, the death rate was 75 percent lower for those given salvage... (MEDLINEplus)
Older men with prostate cancer can wait and see Feb 13, 2008
So-called salvage radiotherapy reduced the risk of dying from prostate cancer by more than 60 percent, the team at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore said. Prostate cancer is the second leading cancer killer of men after lung cancer and will be diagnosed in 218,000 men in the United States alone this year. (Scientific American)
