| Lufang Zhang,Dongliang Pan,Ludong Liu,Yunjiang Zang,Ningchen Li. Salvage treatments for prostate-specific antigen relapse of cT3N0M0 prostatic adenocarcinoma after radical prostatectomy combined with neoadjuvant androgen deprivation. Oncol Transl Med, 2020, 6: 272-276. |
| Salvage treatments for prostate-specific antigen relapse of cT3N0M0 prostatic adenocarcinoma after radical prostatectomy combined with neoadjuvant androgen deprivation |
| Received:May 04, 2020 Revised:November 23, 2020 |
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| KeyWord:prostatic adenocarcinoma (PCa); radical prostatectomy (RP); neoadjuvant androgen deprivation (ADT); external beam radiation therapy; salvage treatment; prostate specific antigen (PSA) relapse |
| Author Name | Affiliation | Postcode | | Lufang Zhang | Department of Urology, Weifang People’s Hospital | 261000 | | Dongliang Pan | Department of Urology, Peking University Shougang Hospital | 100144 | | Ludong Liu | Department of Urology, Weifang People’s Hospital | 261000 | | Yunjiang Zang | Department of Urology, Weifang People’s Hospital | 261000 | | Ningchen Li | Department of Urology, Peking University Shougang Hospital | |
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| Abstract: |
| Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficiency of salvage treatments for prostate specific
antigen (PSA) relapse of cT3N0M0 prostatic adenocarcinoma (PCa) after radical prostatectomy (RP)
combined with neoadjuvant androgen deprivation (ADT).
Methods: A total of 332 patients with cT3N0M0 PCa were enrolled in the prospective study and received
RP and pelvic lymph node dissection with neoadjuvant ADT for 3 months. All patients with PSA relapse
were treated with salvage external beam radiation therapy (RT) and ADT for 6 months.
Results: The 5-year postoperative PSA relapse rate was 40.96% (136/332). The patients have been
divided into the PSA relapse and PSA relapse-free groups in order to compare patient characteristics.
The ratio of patients with Gleason score ≥ 8 and positive surgical margin in the PSA relapse group were
significantly higher than those of in the PSA relapse-free group (P = 0.01). The mean duration between the
start of operative treatment and PSA relapse was 31 months. Salvage treatment to all 136 PSA relapse
patients led to favorable outcomes. PSA relapse was not observed after salvage treatment by the end of
follow-up. The 5-year overall survival rates of the PSA relapse and PSA relapse-free groups were 94.9%
and 93.9%, respectively.
Conclusion: In pursuit of curative treatment, our study showed that RP combined with neoadjuvant ADT
is an aggressive multimodality strategy associated with lower PSA relapse and better survival outcomes for
stage cT3N0M0 PCa patients. Patients with PSA relapse after RP may benefit from early aggressive salvage
RT combined with short-term ADT. |
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