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What criteria do you use when considering treating the pelvic nodes in a salvage prostatectomy case?

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Radiation Oncology · UCLA | VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

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...

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Radiation Oncology · The Oregon Clinic-Radiation Oncology West

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 irradiatio...

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