Oncological follow-up after radical prostatectomy
Journal Title: Revista de Medicină Militară - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
Radical prostatectomy is the gold standard treatment for patients with localized prostatic cancer, but often the pathological diagnosis reveals a locally advanced stage. The aim of this paper is to present the oncological follow-up after radical prostatectomy on a group of 42 patients, patients which have been diagnosed after surgery with a more aggressive stage, locally advanced PCa. Over a period of four years 136 patients have undergone radical prostatectomy. The pathological examination has established that 42 patients presented extracapsular invasion and/or lymph node invasion. 18 patients (pT3-4N0M0) have undergone radiotherapy alone and 24 patients (8 pN1 and 16 pT3-4N1M0) have received androgen deprivation therapy in association with radiotherapy. Over the next two years 15 patients presented biochemical recurrence. For these patients chemotherapy was initiated, but in two cases PSA increase has been observed during periodic evaluation. Although it is not uncommon that postoperatively the histopathological examination establishes a more aggressive disease stage than that established before surgery, radical prostatectomy remains the solution for the localized prostate cancer, solution that can be boosted by radiotherapy and/or androgen deprivation therapy.
Authors and Affiliations
Dragos Marcu, Dan Spinu, Bogdan Socea, Ioana Oprea, Ovidiu Bratu
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