Immediate Adjuvant Radiation Therapy Following Radical Prostatectomy Should Not Be Advised for Men with Extraprostatic Extension Who Have Negative Surgical Margins

Abstract

Although three large randomized prospective clinical trials have demonstrated that postoperative radiotherapy in patients with adverse pathological features reduces prostate-specific antigen recurrence and may decrease clinical failure, this approach has not gained widespread acceptance, likely because the data strongly support such an approach only in men with Gleason ≥7 with positive surgical margins.