What is the minimum amount of time you should wait between a TURP and the start of definitive prostate radiation therapy?  

I am not aware of any solid data on which to base an answer to this question, however, it is a problem that still occasionally arises. A recent summary of the data pertaining to the risk of late effects from prostate radiation after TURP, published in the American Journal of Clinical Oncology in Jun...

I agree that I don’t think the literature suggests an optimal time to wait between TURP and external beam RT. As many of these men will present with higher risk features that are also associated with obstruction, they can sometimes be initially managed with neoadjuvant hormonal the...