Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review

Table 3

LDR brachytherapy: clinical results for patients with high-risk prostate cancer treated with combined brachytherapy and androgen deprivation or external-beam radiation therapy.

Author	Number of patients	PSA relapse definition	Median followup	Years after diagnosis	% of biochimical free reccurence
Ellis et al. [21]	239	ASTRO	47 MONTHS	7	72.5
Dattoli et al. [44]	243	>0.2 ng/mL	8.5 YEARS	13	81
Merrick et al. [45]	204	>0.4 ng/mL	7 YEARS	10	86.6
Zelefsky et al. [22]	192	ASTRO	63 MONTHS	8	48
Khaksar et al. [25]	43	ASTRO	45 MONTHS	5	93
Guedea et al. [26]	30	ASTRO	30 MONTHS	3	81
Stock et al. [14]	360	ASTRO	4.2 YEARS	7	83
Copp et al. [46]	93	ASTRO	54 MONTHS	4	77
Potters et al. [28]	418	ASTRO	82 MONTHS	12	63
Sharkey et al. [29]	1707	ASTRO	—	12	88
Joseph et al. [30]	667	ASTRO	31 MONTHS	8	52.6
Critz and Levinson [31]	1469	>0.2 ng/mL	6 YEARS	10	61
Battermann et al. [33]	114	ASTRO	48 MONTHS	5	54
Sylvester et al. [35]	77	2 PSA rises	63 MONTHS	10	47
Koutrouvelis et al. [41]	280	ASTRO	4 .5 YEARS	5	81
Kwok et al. [36]	28	ASTRO	7 YEARS	5	24