National practice patterns for lymph node irradiation in 197,000 men receiving external beam radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer.
CONCLUSIONS: PLN-RT occurred in about one-third of men receiving external beam radiotherapy and increased over time, mostly in men with very high-risk CaP for unclear reasons. Of concern, over one-quarter of low-risk men receive PLN-RT. Further work is needed to understand the heterogeneity in PLN-RT use. We await the completion of RTO G 09-24 to better understand the role of PLN-RT for men with localized CaP.
PMID: 30611643 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Urologic Oncology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Weiner AB, Ko OS, Zhu A, Spratt DE, Hu JC, Schaeffer EM Tags: Urol Oncol Source Type: research
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