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Oligometastases from prostate cancer: local treatment with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Cancer, May 2017
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Title
Oligometastases from prostate cancer: local treatment with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)
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BMC Cancer, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12885-017-3341-2
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Gregor Habl, Christoph Straube, Kilian Schiller, Marciana Nona Duma, Markus Oechsner, Kerstin A. Kessel, Matthias Eiber, Markus Schwaiger, Hubert Kübler, Jürgen E. Gschwend, Stephanie E. Combs

Abstract

The impact of local tumor ablative therapy in oligometastasized prostate cancer (PC) is still under debate. To gain data for this approach, we evaluated oligometastasized PC patients receiving stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) to bone metastases. In this retrospective study, 15 oligometastasized PC patients with a total of 20 bone metastases were evaluated regarding biochemical progression-free survival (PSA-PFS), time to initiation of ADT, and local control rate (LCR). Three patients received concomitant androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). The median follow-up after RT was 22.5 months (range 7.0-53.7 months). The median PSA-PFS was 6.9 months (range 1.1-28.4 months). All patients showing a decrease of PSA level after RT of at least factor 10 reveal a PSA-PFS of >12 months. Median PSA-PFS of this sub-group was 23.1 months (range 12.1-28.4 months). Local PFS (LPFS) after 2 years was 100%. One patient developed a local failure after 28.4 months. Median distant PFS (DPFS) was 7.36 months (range 1.74-54.34 months). The time to initiation of ADT in patients treated without ADT was 9.3 months (range 2.6-36.1 months). In all patients, the time to intensification of systemic therapy or the time to initiation of ADT increased from 9.3 to 12.3 months (range 2.6-36.1 months). Gleason-Score, ADT or the localization of metastasis had no impact on PFS or time to intensification of systemic therapy. No SBRT related acute or late toxicities were observed. Our study shows that SBRT of bone metastases is a highly effective therapy with an excellent risk-benefit profile. However, PFS was limited due to a high distant failure rate implying the difficulty for patient selection for this oligometastatic concept. SBRT offers high local cancer control rates in bone oligometastases of PC and should be evaluated with the aim of curation or to delay modification of systemic treatment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 66 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 24%
Student > Master 6 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 16 24%
Unknown 13 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 53%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Physics and Astronomy 2 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 19 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 June 2022.
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#7,503,741
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#2,078
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#119,545
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Cancer
#40
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