After definitive prostate RT, when do you prescribe ADT for local salvage (EBRT, HDR, LDR)?

Topics: Radiation Oncology • Genitourinary Cancers

MASTER analysis showed 30 - 40% perisalvage ADT use. What group of patients do you consider for ADT? And for what duration?

Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution

For patients with localized recurrence after definitive radiotherapy, re-irradiation without ADT is a reasonable course of action and the one I usually favor. There are no current clinical trials that have been reported to demonstrate the benefit of ADT in this setting, but this practice is consiste...

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Radiation Oncologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Although as noted above data is lacking, I think i...

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