title: [Radiotherapy after prostatectomy: experiences in Luxembourg from 2005 to 2006].
abstract: Radical prostatectomy is a therapeutic option for the treatment of localized prostate cancer (T1 and T2). The prognostic factors which define risks of recurrence after prostatectomy are: capsular invasion, invasion of resection margins, seminal vesicle invasion. Two randomized trials show that adjuvant radiotherapy improves local control and biochemical recurrence-free survival. Between 2005 and 2006, 12 patients of Centre François Baclesse have been irradiated on theprostatic loge. Immediate post-operative radiotherapy was preferably used. Late toxicity (grade 1) occurred only in one patient (1 case out of 8). Based on the literature, immediate postoperative irradiation is preferentially proposed in case of unfavourable factors, or possibly used secondly, in case of biological recurrence (in early situation i.e. PSA < 0.5).
authors.affiliation: Centre François Baclesse, B.P. 436, L-4005 Esch-sur-Alzette.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Untereiner
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Renard-Oldrini
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mecellem
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Burie
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lassen
authors.forename: R Ruchaud
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Phy
authors.forename: S Joseph
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Phy
authors.forename: L Harzee
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Phy
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008189:Luxembourg; D008297:Male; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000532:radiotherapy* / Q000601:surgery*; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012669:Seminal Vesicles / Q000473:pathology