作者: MACK ROACH , JIANDONG LU , MILJENKO V. PILEPICH , SUCHA O. ASBELL , MOHAMMED MOHIUDDIN
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)61793-2
关键词: Prostate cancer 、 Medicine 、 Hormonal therapy 、 Malignancy 、 Oncology 、 Radiation therapy 、 Prostate neoplasm 、 Survival rate 、 Internal medicine 、 External beam radiotherapy 、 Clinical trial
摘要: AbstractPurpose: We assess the relative importance of several pretreatment characteristics in predicting death from prostate cancer patients treated with curative intent external beam radiotherapy alone.Materials and Methods: Patients entered on 4 prospective phase III randomized trials conducted by Radiation Therapy Oncology Group between 1975 1992 were selected for this analysis if they deemed evaluable eligible trial, had received no hormonal therapy initial treatment followup information was available. A disease specific survival event declared certified as due to cancer, complications or unknown causes clinically active malignancy. Median early late studies exceeded 11 6 years, respectively.Results: Most (1,557) tumors staged at T3 (59%), 87 (36%) T1-2 pathologically positive lymph nodes. On multiva...