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Would you add ADT to EBRT for favorable intermediate risk patients with T1c prostate cancer by DRE and bilateral prostatic lobe involvement by MRI?

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Radiation Oncology · Case Western Reserve University/ University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center

Let's break down the question:

If the patient has favorable intermediate risk disease, but cT1c by DRE, then he must have either:

  1. Grade group 2 (Gleason 3+4), PSA <10, and percent positive cores <50%; or
  2. Grade group 1 (Gleason 3+3), PSA 10-20, and percent positive cores <50%

For scenario 1:

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Radiation Oncology · University of Chicago

Generally speaking, I would not add ADT for a man with favorable, intermediate risk disease treated with EBRT. These men have a high chance for biochemical control, and low chance for cancer mortality (<5%) at 10 years with RT alone, and the added benefit of for ADT is small, probably not making it ...

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Radiation Oncology · University of Florida

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Radiation Oncology · Saint Lucie Radiation Oncology

Great discussion! The eContouring resources have been great for learning the technical aspects of prostate SBRT/hypofx/MRI fusion after training. The ASTRO refreshers, in my opinion at least, from the mid-2010s were too focused on data minutiae and not practical treatment planning but not sure about...

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