Overview
A randomized phase III trial to study the effect of adding lymph node irradiation in patients with poor prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response during salvage radiotherapy for biochemical recurrence (0.15 ≤ PSA <0.70 ng/ml) after prostatectomy.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Life expectancy > 10 years
- Age ≥18 years.
- World Health Organization (WHO) performance status 0-1.
- Estimated life expectancy >10 years.
- Histological evidence of prostate cancer in the prostatectomy specimen
- Primary tumor, regional nodes, metastasis (TNM): any primary tumor (pT), pathologically node-negative (pN0), M0.
- Biochemical Recurrence (BCR) after prostatectomy, with 0.15 ≤ PSA <0.70 ng/ml.
- Patients must be able to comply with the protocol.
- Signed informed consent.
- Adequate laboratory findings (Haemoglobin (Hb) >90g/L, absolute neutrophil count >1.0x109/L, platelets >75x109/l, bilirubin <1.5x upper limit of normal (ULN), alanine aminotransferase (ALAT) <5x ULN and creatinine <1.5 ULN).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Metastases (regional lymph nodes or distant)* diagnosed with imaging.
- Prior or ongoing hormonal therapy (antiandrogens or gonadotropin releasing hormone).
- Prior radiotherapy to the pelvis.
- Prior malignancy other than prostate cancer and basalioma in the past five years.
- Clinically significant (i.e. active) cardiovascular disease e.g. myocardial infarction (≤6 months), unstable angina, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III-IV congestive heart failure.
- Severe pulmonary disease.
- Any other serious or uncontrolled illness which in the opinion of the investigator makes it undesirable for the patient to enter the trial.