(HealthDay)—Clinical guidelines on adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy have been updated, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology and the American ...

No clear consensus guidelines exist for managing biochemically recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) after radical prostatectomy (RP), but evidence suggests salvage radiotherapy (SRT) is a viable option ...

The Adjuvant and Salvage Radiotherapy after Prostatectomy: ASTRO/AUA Guideline (available online in the Journal of Urology and in Practical Radiation Oncology was amended as follows: ...

The American Urological Association released a clinical practice guideline pertaining to salvage therapy for men with prostate cancer.The guideline, issued in collaboration with American Society ...

Similarly, late grade 2 or worse genitourinary toxicities were documented in 27% of patients in the adjuvant radiotherapy group, vs 7% of those in the salvage radiotherapy group (P < .0001).

LINTHICUM, Md. and ARLINGTON, Va., April 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American Urological ...

Yet still, it was the first study to show that ADT could benefit patients undergoing salvage radiation, he said. Findings from SPPORT, which were presented at last year's ASTRO meeting and tested ...

Current guidelines recommend all men be offered hormone therapy when receiving salvage radiotherapy (SRT) following prostate cancer surgery and subsequent biochemical recurrence.

Salvage radiation therapy was initiated within 12 weeks after randomization with the use of photon energies ... American Society for Radiation Oncology/American Urological Association guidelines.

June 18 -- TUESDAY, June 17 (HealthDay News) -- Countering common medical theory, a new study finds that radiation therapy may save the lives of many men whose prostate cancer recurs aggressively ...