Observations of pretreatment prostate-specific antigen doubling time in 107 patients referred for definitive radiotherapy.
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Journal Article
PURPOSE: To determine pretreatment prostate-specific antigen doubling times (PSADT) in patients referred for definitive radiotherapy. METHODS AND MATERIALS: One hundred and seven patients with histologically proven nonmetastatic prostate cancer and an elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) who were referred for radiation therapy had three serum PSA values obtained prior to the start of definitive therapy. Prostate-specific antigen doubling times were calculated by linear regression. RESULTS: Prostate-specific antigen values increased during the period of observation in 78 patients (73%). Forty-three patients (40%) had calculated PSADT of less than 2 years and of those patients with pretreatment serum PSA values of greater than 10 ng/mL more than 50% has calculated PSADT of less than 2 years. CONCLUSIONS: A significant minority of patients referred for radiotherapy have calculated PSADT of less than 2 years. The significance of this relatively fast growth rate is as yet undetermined, but suggests that patients referred for radiotherapy may have aggressive disease prior to treatment.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Lee, WR; Hanks, GE; Corn, BW; Schultheiss, TE
Published Date
- January 1, 1995
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 31 / 1
Start / End Page
- 21 - 24
PubMed ID
- 7527798
Pubmed Central ID
- 7527798
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0360-3016
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/0360-3016(94)00339-M
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States