NSU-MD Faculty Articles
Title
Outcome profiles of locoregional disease after radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy.
ISBN or ISSN
0724-4983
Publication Title
World journal of urology
Volume
18
Issue
3
Publication Date / Copyright Date
6-1-2000
First Page
173
Last Page
178
Publisher
Springer
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the outcome profiles of a large number of patients with locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the prostate following radical perineal prostatectomy (RPP) for clinically organ-confined disease. Of 1662 men who underwent RPP performed by a single surgeon between January 1972 and January 1999, 692 patients (41.6%) aged a median of 66.1 years were found to have extracapsular disease on pathological evaluation. The extent of disease was categorized as either specimen-confined (n = 355) or margin-positive (n = 337). The histological grade of the cancer was characterized using the Gleason score. Time to biochemical failure, defined as a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level of > or = 0.5 ng/ml, and cancer-associated survival were the end points of our outcome analysis using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. The median time to cancer-associated death for patients with specimen-confined and margin-positive disease was 18.5 and 13.1 years, respectively. After 5 years, 37% and 54% of the patients with specimen-confined and margin-positive disease, respectively, had PSA failure. Prostate cancer patients with a Gleason score of 5-6, 7, and 8-10 experienced a median time to cancer-associated death of 19.9, 19.2, and 10.5 years, respectively. A subset of patients undergoing adjunctive radiation therapy (XRT) relapsed biochemically after a median period of approximately 18 months. RPP provides a substantial disease-control benefit in patients with specimen-confined cancer. The time to biochemical failure and the time to cancer-associated death are significantly influenced by the biology of the underlying disease, necessitating long-term follow-up in the outcome analysis of any modality of treatment for prostate cancer. A benefit of early adjunctive XRT for local failure remains to be determined.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Keywords
Adenocarcinoma, Aged, Humans, Male, Neoplasm Staging, Prostatectomy, Prostatic Neoplasms, Survival Rate, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome
NSUWorks Citation
Dahm, P; Vieweg, Johannes; Newhall, P M; Robertson, J E; and Paulson, D F, "Outcome profiles of locoregional disease after radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy." (2000). NSU-MD Faculty Articles. 18.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_md_facarticles/18
