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Effect of increasing radiation doses on local and distant failures in patients with localized prostate cancer.Kupelian PA, Ciezki J, Reddy CA, Klein EA, Mahadevan A Department of Radiation Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Orlando, FL 32806, USA. patrick.kupelian@orhs.org PURPOSE: To study the effect of radiation dose on local failure (LF) and distant metastasis (DM) in prostate cancer patients treated with external beam radiotherapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS: The study sample consisted of 919 Stage T1-T3N0M0 patients treated with radiotherapy alone. Three separate dose groups were analyzed: <72 Gy (n = 552, median dose, 68.4 Gy), > or =72 but <82 Gy (n = 215, median dose, 78 Gy), and > or =82 Gy (n = 152, median dose, 83 Gy). The median follow-up period for all patients and those receiving <72 Gy, > or =72 but <82 Gy, and > or =82 Gy was 97, 112, 94, and 65 months, respectively. RESULTS: For all patients, the LF rate at 10 and 15 years was 6% and 13%, respectively. The 7-year LF rate stratified by dose group (<72 Gy, > or =72 but <82 Gy, and > or =82 Gy) was 6%, 2%, and 2%, respectively (p = 0.012). For all patients, the DM rate at 10 and 15 years was 10% and 17%, respectively. The 7-year DM rate stratified by dose group (<72 Gy, > or =72 but <82 Gy, and > or =82 Gy) was 9%, 6%, and 1%, respectively (p = 0.008). Multivariate analysis revealed T stage (p < 0.001), pretreatment prostate-specific antigen level (p = 0.001), Gleason score (p < 0.001), and dose (p = 0.018) to be independent predictors of DM. For all 919 patients, multivariate analysis revealed only Gleason score (p = 0.009) and dose (p = 0.004) to be independent predictors of LF. CONCLUSION: Although the effect of increasing radiation doses has been documented mostly for biochemical failure rates, the results of our study have shown a clear association between greater radiation doses and lower LF and DM rates. Published 14 April 2008 in Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 71(1): 16-22.
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