Given POP-RT trial, do you cover elective nodes in high risk

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Ah, to treat nodes or not for prostate cancer -- an area that everyone loves to debate. The recent, fascinating POP-RT trial does shed some important light on this topic, but it's important to keep the trial's patient population in mind when deciding whom to apply it to. Also, the trial is not witho...

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Radiation Oncologist at Baylor Scott & White Health
Complements data from RTOG 0534. I think many woul...

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In regards to considering omission of pelvic nodal...

Radiation Oncologist at Saint John Macomb-Oakland Hospital
Clearly, overall survival (not biochemical failure...

Radiation Oncologist at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
@Michal J. Wolski, thanks for the feedback and I'm...

Radiation Oncologist at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
I'd like to raise one point in regards to @Michael...

Radiation Oncologist at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Thank you for the added insight, @Adam Olson!

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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

I've been covering lymph nodes in men with high risk prostate cancer since Dr. Perez trained me to do so! I agree, the POP-RT trial and NRG/RTOG-0534 finally asked the question in the correct patient populations.

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Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

Yes, if the risk is 15% or higher based on the MSKCC nomogram.

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