Review Article

Local Treatment of Metastatic Prostate Cancer: What is the Evidence So Far?

Table 1

Mean survival time and disease-specific mortality by therapeutic modality, adapted from Antwi and Everson (2014) [4].

Therapeutic modalityAverage survival time after diagnosis (months)DSM (%)

RP2915,3
BT3128,3
NLT1745,4

DSM: disease-specific mortality; RP: radical prostatectomy; BT: brachytherapy; NLT: no local treatment.