Salvage therapy of small volume prostate cancer nodal failures: a review of the literature.

Abstract

New imaging modalities may be useful to identify prostate cancer patients with small volume, limited nodal relapse ("oligo-recurrent") potentially amenable to local treatments (radiotherapy, surgery) with the aim of long-term control of the disease, even in a condition traditionally considered prognostically unfavorable. This report reviews the new diagnostic tools and the main published data about the role of surgery and radiation therapy in this particular subgroup of patients.

• Authors: Berardino De Bari, Filippo Alongi, Michela Buglione, Franco Campostrini, Alberto Briganti, Genoveffa Berardi, Giuseppe Petralia, Massimo Bellomi, Arturo Chiti, Andrei Fodor, Nazareno Suardi, Cesare Cozzarini, Di Muzio Nadia, Marta Scorsetti, Roberto Orecchia, Francesco Montorsi, Filippo Bertoni, Stefano Maria Magrini, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa
• Journal: Critical reviews in oncology/hematology (Crit Rev Oncol Hematol) Vol. 90 Issue 1 Pg. 24-35 (Apr 2014) ISSN: 1879-0461 [Electronic] Netherlands
• PMID: 24315428 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

Topics

• Humans
• Lymph Nodes (pathology)
• Male
• Multimodal Imaging
• Neoplasm Recurrence, Local (diagnosis, therapy)
• Prognosis
• Prostatic Neoplasms (pathology)
• Salvage Therapy