Positive Margins: Is Adjunctive Radiation Therapy Indicated?

Abstract

Patients with margin positive disease after radical prostatectomy are prognostically disadvantaged. the question of postoperative adjunctive radiotherapy in these patients is controversial. A retrospective study suggested that adjunctive radiation therapy reduced the local recurrence rate but did not alter survival.

Key Words:

• Prostate cancer
• radical prostatectomy
• positive surgical margin
• adjunctive radiotherapy
• survival
• local recurrencerate