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Lymph node ratio determines the benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy in pathologically 3 or less lymph node-positive prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy: a population-based analysis with propensity-score matching

Yi-Jun Kim, Changhoon Song, Keun-Yong Eom, In Ah Kim and Jae-Sung Kim _

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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:110625-110634. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.22610

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Abstract

Yi-Jun Kim1, Changhoon Song1, Keun-Yong Eom1, In Ah Kim1 and Jae-Sung Kim1

1Department of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Correspondence to:

Jae-Sung Kim, email: [email protected]

Keywords: adjuvant radiotherapy; lymph node ratio; positive lymph node; prostate cancer; radical prostatectomy

Received: September 14, 2017     Accepted: October 29, 2017     Published: November 22, 2017

ABSTRACT

Background: The survival benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy (ART) in prostate adenocarcinoma, with limited numbers of pathologically involved lymph nodes (LNs) after radical prostatectomy (RP), is controversial.

Materials and Methods: From 2004 to 2014, data for prostate cancer patients categorized as N1M0 after RP were retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. After propensity-score matching, the 10-year cancer-specific survival (CSS) rates between patients who received ART (ART group) or did not/unknown (no-ART group) were compared for each stratum of lymph node ratio (LNR) (%) according to the number of involved LNs.

Results: Optimal matching formed pairs of no-ART (n = 905) and ART (n = 905) groups. ART increased the CSS rate, even in patients with up to 3 positive LNs when the LNR is 7% or higher.

Conclusions: ART after RP showed a CSS benefit in prostate adenocarcinoma with 4 or more involved LNs irrespective of LNR. In prostate adenocarcinoma with up to 3 involved LNs after RP, ART may provide CSS benefits when the LNR is 7% or higher. The number of LN dissections required to achieve an LNR below 7% is 15, 29, and 43 or more for 1, 2, and 3 involved LNs, respectively.


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