Locally advanced undertreated in Sweden

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Mortality among men with locally advanced prostate cancer managed with noncurative intent: A nationwide study in PCBaSe Sweden - Abstract

Thu, 30 June 2011

Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

There are limited prognostic data for locally advanced prostate cancer PCa to guide in the choice of treatment.

To assess mortality in different prognostic categories among men with locally advanced PCa managed with noncurative intent.

We conducted a register-based nationwide cohort study within the Prostate Cancer DataBase Sweden. The entire cohort of locally advanced PCa included 14 908 men. After the exclusion of 2724 (18%) men treated with curative intent, 12 184 men with locally advanced PCa either with local clinical stage T3 or T4 or with T2 with serum levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) between 50 and 99 ng/ml and without signs of metastases remained for analysis.

We followed up the patient cohort in the Cause of Death Register for ? 11 yr and assessed cumulative incidence of PCa -specific death stratified by age and clinical characteristics.

The PCa -specific mortality at 8 yr of follow-up was 28% (95% confidence interval [CI], 25-32%) for Gleason score (GS) 2-6, 41% (95% CI, 38-44%) for GS 7, 52% (95% CI, 47-57%) for GS 8, and 64% (95% CI, 59-69%) for GS 9-10. Even for men aged >85 yr at diagnosis with GS 8-10, PCa was a major cause of death: 42% (95% CI, 37-47%). Men with locally advanced disease and a PSA< 4 ng/ml at diagnosis were at particularly increased risk of dying from PCa. One important limitation is the lack of bone scans in 42% of the patient cohort, but results remained after exclusion of patients with unknown metastasis status.

The PCa-specific mortality within 8 yr of diagnosis is high in locally advanced PCa, suggesting undertreatment, particularly among men in older age groups. Our results underscore the need for more studies of treatment with curative intent for locally advanced tumors.

Written by:

Akre O, Garmo H, Adolfsson J, Lambe M, Bratt O, Stattin P.

Reference: Eur Urol. 2011 Jun 1. Epub ahead of print.

doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2011.05.047

PubMed Abstract

PMID: 21664039 Forum: Other prostate cancer topics including radiation Title: Locally advanced undertreated in Sweden

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