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Radiotherapy doses of 80 Gy and higher are associated with lower mortality in men with Gleason score 8 to 10 prostate cancer.


ABSTRACT: Men with Gleason score (GS) 8-10 prostate cancer (PCa) are assumed to have a high risk of micrometastatic disease at presentation. However, local failure is also a major problem. We sought to establish the importance of more aggressive local radiotherapy (RT) to ?80 Gy.There were 226 men treated consecutively with RT ± ADT from 1988 to 2002 for GS 8-10 PCa. Conventional, three-dimensional conformal or intensity-modulated (IM) RT was used. Radiation dose was divided into three groups: (1) <75 Gy (n = 50); (2) 75-79.9 Gy (n = 60); or (3) ?80 Gy (n = 116). The endpoints examined included biochemical failure (BF; nadir + 2 definition), distant metastasis (DM), cause-specific mortality, and overall mortality (OM).Median follow-up was 66, 71, and 58 months for Groups 1, 2, and 3. On Fine and Gray's competing risk regression analysis, significant predictors of reduced BF were RT dose ?80 Gy (p = 0.011) and androgen deprivation therapy duration ?24 months (p = 0.033). In a similar model of DM, only RT dose ?80 Gy was significant (p = 0.007). On Cox regression analysis, significant predictors of reduced OM were RT dose ?80 Gy (p = 0.035) and T category (T3/4 vs. T1, p = 0.041). Dose was not a significant determinant of cause-specific mortality. Results for RT dose were similar in a model with RT dose and ADT duration as continuous variables.The results indicate that RT dose escalation to ?80 Gy is associated with lower risks of BF, DM, and OM in men with GS 8-10 PCa, independently of androgen deprivation therapy.

SUBMITTER: Pahlajani N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3827957 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Radiotherapy doses of 80 Gy and higher are associated with lower mortality in men with Gleason score 8 to 10 prostate cancer.

Pahlajani Niraj N   Ruth Karen J KJ   Buyyounouski Mark K MK   Chen David Y T DY   Horwitz Eric M EM   Hanks Gerald E GE   Price Robert A RA   Pollack Alan A  

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 20110715 5


<h4>Purpose</h4>Men with Gleason score (GS) 8-10 prostate cancer (PCa) are assumed to have a high risk of micrometastatic disease at presentation. However, local failure is also a major problem. We sought to establish the importance of more aggressive local radiotherapy (RT) to ≥80 Gy.<h4>Methods and materials</h4>There were 226 men treated consecutively with RT ± ADT from 1988 to 2002 for GS 8-10 PCa. Conventional, three-dimensional conformal or intensity-modulated (IM) RT was used. Radiation d  ...[more]

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