Positive margins: is adjunctive radiation therapy indicated?

Acta Oncol. 1991;30(2):263-5. doi: 10.3109/02841869109092366.

Abstract

Patients with margin positive disease after radical prostatectomy are prognostically disadvantaged. The question of postoperative adjunctive radiotherapy in these patients is controversial. A retrospective study suggested that adjunctive radiation therapy reduced the local recurrence rate but did not alter survival.

MeSH terms

  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / prevention & control
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / mortality
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Survival Rate