Is 80 Gy/40 Fx + ADT the new standard of care for definitive radiation of high risk prostate cancer?
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Radiation Oncology · Case Western Reserve University/ University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
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For well over a decade, we are taught that dose escalation improves biochemical control but not overall survival, while ADT improves both. Do the results of GETUG AFU-18 change this? Let's take a l...
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Radiation Oncology · Vice Chair, Northside Hospital Cancer Institute
All data points to dose (i.e., BED) mattering for higher risk CaP. That said, for amenable patients, I dose-escalate via brachy-boost following EBRT in my practice as per ASCENDE. For non-brachy candidates being treated with definitive beam, I had recently switched from standard fx ...