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We reviewed our institution's experience treating patients with prostate cancer with 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT) and short-term adjuvant hormonal therapy to determine biochemical no evidence of disease (bNED) and clinical outcome compared with patients treated with 3DCRT alone. Between 4/1/89 and 11/30/94, 558 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer received treatment at Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, Pa.); 484 patients were treated with 3DCRT alone (Group I); 74 patients were treated with 3DCRT and hormones (Group II). Five-year actuarial rates of bNED control, distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), cause-specific survival (CSS), and overall survival (OS) were calculated for pretreatment PSA, Gleason score, T stage, use of hormones, treatment field size, age, and dose. A matched case/control analysis was performed to further evaluate the effect of hormones on treatment with 3DCRT. Median follow-up was 47 months (range: 2-97 months). The 5-year actuarial rates of bNED control, DMFS, CSS, and OS were 66%, 93%, 98%, and 86%, respectively, for Group I patients and 68%, 93%, 98%, and 89%, respectively, for Group II patients. Multivariate analysis demonstrated that hormone use was an independent predictor of bNED control only. A significant difference in bNED control was observed between Group I and II (43% vs. 71%) using the matched case/control analysis (P = 0.02). A trend towards significance was observed for different rates of DMFS between Group I and II (79% vs. 94%, P = 0.09). Patients with clinically localized prostate cancer with poor prognostic features (pretreatment PSA > or = 10 ng/ml, Gleason score > or = 7, and/or T2c or greater palpation stage) show improved rates of bNED control and a trend towards improved DMFS when treated with 3DCRT and short-term adjuvant hormones compared with 3DCRT alone. Long-term observation will be necessary to see if improvements in bNED control will translate into improvements in overall survival.
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PMID:Is there a role for short-term hormone use in the treatment of nonmetastatic prostate cancer? 1049 66

The development of 3D conformal radiation is reviewed and the proof given of three key hypotheses that result in improved patient results. The Fox Chase outcomes from 3D CRT show 7- and 8-year biochemical freedom of disease rates of 72% for all patients, 84% for PSA < 10 ng/ml, 73% for PSA 10-19.9 ng/ml and 37% for PSA > 20 ng/ml. Dose responses by pretreatment PSA level grouping show steep slopes for patients with PSA> 10 ng/ml. Dose response is also demonstrated for 'favorable' and 'unfavorable' prognostic subgroupings of the classic three pretreatment PSA groups. A matched pair analysis of high-dose 3D CRT versus low-dose 3D CRT shows on multivariate analysis a significant advantage in freedom from distant metastasis. A similar matched comparison of high-dose 3D CRT with low-dose 3D CRT patients and low-dose conventional technique patients shows a significant advantage in distant metastasis, cause-specific survival and overall survival for the high-dose group. Future studies including those using biochemical endpoints to direct differential dose distributions are discussed.
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PMID:Progress in 3D conformal radiation treatment of prostate cancer. 1061 99

The purpose of this study was to present patterns and risk of biochemical failure following external beam irradiation of prostate cancer and to make comparisons to a published modern radical prostatectomy series. Between January 1987 and December 1994, 328 men were treated definitively at Fox Chase Cancer Center for localized prostate cancer using conventional or three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy. The median biochemical follow-up was 6.4 years, with all patients having at least 5 years follow-up. Two prognostic patient groups were established on the basis of proportional hazards modeling that considered treatment and presenting tumor characteristics. For each of the two prognostic groups, biochemical failure and hazard functions were estimated using the ASTRO consensus definition of failure and life table methodology. Failure risk comparisons were made to modern published radical prostatectomy series. Multivariate analysis demonstrated the independent predictive power of pretreatment PSA level, palpation stage, Gleason score, and dose. Thus, the favorable prognosis group, Group I, consisted of 83 patients who were treated with a dose level > or = 74 Gy and who presented with PSA levels < 20 ng/ml, T1/T2A tumors, and Gleason score 2-6. Group II consisted of 245 patients with at least one of the following: pretreatment PSA level > or = 20 ng/ml, T2B/T3 tumor, Gleason score 7-10, dose < 74 Gy. The 5- and 8-year bNED estimates were 76% and 76% for Group I, and 51% and 49% for Group II. Only three failures occurred after 5 years, all from Group II, representing 2% of the total failures observed. Hazard function estimates indicate maximum risk of failure at 24 to 36 months, tapering to a low rate at 4 years with no failures observed after 6 years. Differences in patterns of failure by prognostic group show maximum risk of failure at 24 months (median, 31 months) for Group I, and 12 to 36 months (median, 22 months) for Group II. Group II reaches low levels of risk at 6 years, in contrast to 4 years for the patients with a more favorable prognosis. We concluded that patients treated with external beam radiation alone show little risk of failure after 4 to 6 years. This result suggests that the 5-year bNED control rate approximates the eventual cure rate of prostate cancer.
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PMID:Failure pattern implications following external beam irradiation of prostate cancer: long-term follow-up and indications of cure. 1080 36