Recommendations for Post-Prostatectomy Radiation Therapy in the United States Before and After the Presentation of Randomized Trials

The EORTC 22911 and the SWOG 8794 studies, presented in 2004 and 2005, showed that adjuvant radiation therapy after prostatectomy improved biochemical disease-free survival in men with adverse pathological features. In this study we evaluated the use of post-prostatectomy radiation therapy following the presentation of these results, and the impact of margin involvement, pathological tumor stage, Gleason score and sociodemographic factors on...