Elective irradiation of pelvic lymph nodes during postprostatectomy salvage radiotherapy

BACKGROUND: Success rates with salvage radiotherapy (SRT) in men who have a postprostatectomy biochemical relapse are suboptimal. One treatment‐intensification strategy includes elective irradiation of the pelvic lymph nodes with whole pelvis radiotherapy (WPRT). METHODS: An inter‐institutional retrospective cohort study compared outcomes for patients who received SRT at 2 separate academic institutions with disparate treatment paradigms: almost...