Salvage external beam radiotherapy for local recurrence without systemic progression or prostate specific antigen recurrence of prostate cancer after initial hormonal therapy: is it possible to identify patients likely to have good treatment outcomes?
Good responses to sEBRT can be expected in patients with local recurrence without systemic progression or isolated PSA recurrence after initial hormonal therapy when the patients show both pre-sEBRT PSA<30.0 ng/ml and PSADT>7.0 months.
High-frequency sonography is a simple, reliable, noninvasive, and accurate method for the preoperative measurement of melanoma thickness. In fact, surgical planning could be adapted according to this measurement. The prognostic value of vascularization evaluated with color Doppler sonography is comparable with that determined by the Breslow index.