Radioterapia de salvamento para cáncer de próstata y recaída bioquímica: cinco años de experiencia. Instituto Nacional de Cancerología Thesis

short description

  • Postgraduate thesis

Thesis author

  • Galvis, Juan Carlos
  • Mojica Vargas, Angelica
  • Ospino Peña, Rosalba
  • Rodriguez García, Alberto
  • Sepúlveda Calixto, Eliana

abstract

  • Patients with prostate cancer with tumors of low and intermediate risk of relapse can be treated with surgery, radiation therapy, and in selected cases observation. Patients in our country are treated with radical prostatectomy, which are likely to relapse Biochemistry from 15% to 40% at 5 years (1,2,3). Methodology: descriptive, retrospective study, type series of cases. We reviewed the records of all who received radiotherapy of rescue that provides for those patients who already have relapse biochemistry or local after Radical Prostatectomy, between January 2003 and December 2007. Result: 40 eligible patients for analysis, the mean follow-up was of 2.17 years, with a standard deviation of 1.5 years, with a range of 0 to 58 months, the mean age was 66,12 years, with a standard deviation of 6.63, with a range between 50 and 78 years. All patients made him Prostatectomy. The mean of disease free survival with 95% confidence intervals was 4,58 years (2.24 to 4.92 years). Debate: analysed the results in this group of patients with prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy of rescue, with an average follow-up of 2.17 years, we observe that the results obtained in this study are lower than those recorded in other reports in the literature (16-20).

publication date

  • June 9, 2015 6:45 PM

keywords

  • cancer prostate radiotherapy

Document Id

  • af98d384-6eff-458f-801f-a80368c9b47d