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Given the results of the GETUG 14 randomized trial presented at ASCO 2016, should all men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer receiving dose-escalated radiotherapy receive concurrent ADT?

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Radiation Oncology · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Neither the GETUG 14 or EORTC 22991 study just published in JCO are mature enough yet to fully answer the question based on endpoints of death from PC and/or overall survival.

The third study looking at this is RTOG 0815 which also is not mature yet.

It is likely that men with favorable int risk can b...

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Radiation Oncology · IU Health/ Central Indiana Cancer Centers

High dose radiation does not improve overall survival; ADT does improve OS . Why go beyond 7560cGy? It just dries up the prostate and decreases ejaculate.

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