Oct 19, 2021

Salvage lymph node dissection for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) positron emission tomography (PET)-identified oligometastatic disease

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada
Adam Bobrowski, Ur Metser, Antonio Finelli, Neil Fleshner, Alejandro Berlin, Nathan Perlis, Girish S Kulkarni, Peter Chung, Kopika Kuhathaas, Eshetu G Atenafu, Robert J Hamilton
CONCLUSIONS: In our series of salvage dissection for PSMA-PET-detected nodal oligometastases, approximately a third achieved PSA <0.2; yet, it was only durable in 27%. Prospective trials of salvage nodal radiation are ongoing, however, more prospective trials of salvage node dissection are needed.