Dose-escalated salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy in high risk prostate cancer patients without hormone therapy: outcome, prognostic factors and late toxicity

摘要

Purpose Evaluation of dose escalated salvage radiotherapy (SRT) in patients after radical prostatectomy (RP) who had never received antihormonal therapy. To investigate prognostic factors of the outcome of SRT and to analyze which patient subsets benefit most from dose escalation. Materials and methods Between 2002 and 2008, 76 patients were treated in three different dose-groups: an earlier cohort treated with 66?Gy irrespective of pre-RT-characteristics and two later cohorts treated with 70?Gy or 75?Gy depending on pre-RT-characteristics. Biochemical-relapse-free-survival (bRFS), clinical-relapse-free-survival (cRFS) and late toxicity were evaluated. Results Four-year bRFS and cRFS were 62.5% and 85%. Gleason score 66?Gy. While?>?70 Gy did not improve the overall results, 4-year bRFS for patients with manifest local recurrence in the high-dose group was still comparable to those without manifest local recurrences. No grade 4 and minimal grade 3 gastrointestinal and urinary toxicity were observed. Conclusions Dose-escalated SRT achieves high biochemical control. The data strongly support the application of at least 70?Gy rather than 66?Gy. They do not prove positive effects of doses >70?Gy but do not disprove them as these doses were only applied to an unfavorable patients selection.