Considering benefit and risk before routinely recommending SpaceOAR

Localised prostate cancer is a common malignancy with multiple, large, prospective trials reporting a considerable number of patients who can be cured when treated with surgery or radiotherapy. Radiotherapy in this setting is associated with 5% or lower grade 3 toxicity rates, and grade 4 toxicity rates of less than 1%. 1 Michalski JM Moughan J Purdy J et al. Effect of standard vs dose-escalated radiation therapy for patients with...