Is it ever reasonable to offer EBRT alone for a patient with high risk prostate cancer?
Is age ever a concern given the potential side effects of long term ADT?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
I think there could be 3 broad reasons to consider not combining RT with ADT for high risk prostate cancer:
Disease risk: If a patient falls into a more favorable part of the high risk spectrum (e.g. high risk by PSA only, MRI without ECE/SVI/LNI/larger nodule size, or perhaps lower-risk genomic cl...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
It is reasonable to omit ADT and treat with EBRT only in cases where the patient refuses ADT or if there is a major comorbidity (heart, CV disease, severe depression, Parkinson's, etc.) where ADT may increase the risk of adverse outcome.
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Radiation Oncologist at Mon Health Would it also be reasonable to offer high risk pro...
Radiation Oncologist at Kings County Hospital Center I'm in agreement that high risk is relative and tr...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
"High risk" is a very heterogeneous group.
A single (+) core with Gleason 8, with nonpalpable disease, with PSA < 10 ng/mL is "high risk" (I consider that sort of case to be a "technical" high risk case).
12/12 (+) cores with Gleason 5+4 and a PSA of 40 ng/mL is "high risk" (I consider that sor...