Whole-pelvis Radiotherapy in the Radiation Treatment of Intermediate- and High-risk Prostate Cancer: How to Improve the Therapeutic Ratio of a Potentially Effective but still Unsatisfactory Treatment?

The paper of Spratt et al [1], which appears in this month’s issue of European Urology, dealing with the extremely timely topic of the ideal extension of the irradiation field in the case of prophylactic irradiation of the pelvic lymphnodal area—the so-called whole-pelvis radiotherapy (WPRT)—in the setting of radical radiation treatment of clinically localized prostate carcinoma, seems...