Management strategies for locally advanced prostate cancer

Drugs & Aging
Ashesh B Jani

Abstract

Locally advanced prostate cancer represents a subpopulation of prostate cancer diagnosed in patients who are either untouched by screening efforts or whose disease has an unusually rapidly progressive natural history. The diagnostic work-up for the locally advanced patient is distinct from that of early stage disease in several respects in that it is related principally to ruling out metastases. The typical metastatic work-up consists of a serum alkaline phosphatase, bone scan, CT of the abdomen/pelvis, and chest x-ray. Once metastatic disease has been ruled out, individual components of the management of locally advanced prostate cancer patients may include surgery (palliative or curative), external beam radiation therapy (with photons or particles) or brachytherapy (with low-dose rate/permanent or high-dose rate/temporary radiation sources), and hormone therapy. Unlike in early stage disease, observation/watchful waiting is typically not a treatment option in locally advanced prostate cancer. Of the curative local control modalities, the one most commonly used, and the one which has emerged as the clinical standard, is photon external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). Numerous randomised studies have shown that androgen ablation has ...Continue Reading

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