What criteria do you use when considering treating the pelvic nodes in a salvage prostatectomy case?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
Perhaps I am biased because I have conducted research in this area, but I believe this is one of the more intriguing questions in our field. Particularly, given how many men are referred for post-prostatectomy salvage radiotherapy for a rising PSA. I had enthusiastically enrolled patients onto the R...
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
I'd appreciate more data on this question too to help refine decision-making. RTOG 0534 (Pollack et al., PMID 35569466) reported reduced 5-year biochemical failure, regional failure, distant metastasis, time to second androgen deprivation, and castrate resistant disease with elective node irrad...