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Would you offer radiation therapy to the prostate in addition to up to 1-3 osseous metastases in a patient with newly castrate-resistant oligometastatic prostate cancer, with no prior treatment to the prostate?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network
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I would not treat the prostate except for palliation of local symptoms. There is no proven benefit of local RT for castrate-resistant prostate cancer.

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