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Stéphane Supiot
Salvage reirradiation for locoregional failure after radiation therapy for prostate cancer: Who, when, where and how?
Even in the current era of dose-escalated radiotherapy for prostate cancer, biochemical recurrence is not uncommon. Furthermore, biochemical failure is not specific to the site of recurrence. One of the major challenges in the management of prostate cancer patients with biochemical failure after radiotherapy is the early discrimination between those with locoregional recurrence only and those with metastatic disease. While the latter are generally considered incurable, patients with locoregional disease may benefit from emerging treatment options. Ultimately, the objective of salvage therapy is to control disease while ensuring minimal collateral damage, thereby optimizing both cancer and t…
Radiothérapie guidée par l’image des cancers prostatiques : concepts et implications
Resume La radiotherapie conformationnelle avec modulation d’intensite (RCMI) et la radiotherapie guidee par l’image sont deux evolutions technologiques qui, appliquees au modele des cancers prostatiques, ont permis de voir diminuer significativement la toxicite et les sequelles digestives et urinaires de la radiotherapie conformationnelle tridimensionnelle. Le benefice clinique majeur de ces techniques sur la diminution de la toxicite digestive et urinaire est indiscutable puisque les sequelles observees a dix ans sont devenues rares avec ces techniques (2 % de cas de toxicite digestive de grade 2 et 1 % de grade 3, 11 % de cas de toxicite urinaire de grade 2 et 5 % de grade 3). Si ces deux…