Outcome and Toxicity of Moderately Hypofractionated Post-Prostatectomy Radiotherapy: A Retrospective Study
Rocchina Vilella, Fiorella D’Auria, Luciana Valvano, Barbara D’Andrea, Antonietta Montagna, Giovanni Castaldo, Ilaria Benevento, Angela Pia Solazzo, Manuela Botte, Grazia Lazzari, Teodora Statuto, Luciana Rago, Ravi P Sahu · 2025
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Rocchina Vilella and co-authors review, in a 2025 study, outcomes and side effects of a shortened radiation course given after prostate removal. Sixty-seven patients were treated with a focused arc method, as added insurance or as salvage when signs returned. Doses were packed into a median of twenty-five sessions, and three in five also had the wider pelvis treated.
At a median of four years, freedom from chemical relapse stood at about eighty percent at three years and sixty-nine at five. No severe early side effects occurred. Later bowel and urinary effects were mostly mild, though a few severe cases appeared. Adding pelvic treatment raised late side effect risk, the key caution from the data.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rocchina Vilella, Fiorella D’Auria, Luciana Valvano, Barbara D’Andrea, Antonietta Montagna, Giovanni Castaldo, Ilaria Benevento, Angela Pia Solazzo, Manuela Botte, Grazia Lazzari, Teodora Statuto, Luciana Rago, Ravi P Sahu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |