Controversies and Perspectives in the Use of Postoperative Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer

• Main Author: Alan Dal Pra (auth)
• Other Authors: Stephane Supiot (auth), Thomas Zilli (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; prostate cancer; PSMA; Choline PET; LH-RH agonists; salvage prostate bed radiotherapy; Intra-operative radiotherapy; rising PSA
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The use of radical prostatectomy in patients with high risk of recurrence has significantly increased during the past 10 years. Thus, adjuvant radiation as a part of multimodality treatment or salvage radiation at the evidence of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) progression represents mainstay curati...