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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2015 Oct 31;94(2):254–262. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.10.056

Table 4.

Outcomes in men with very-high-risk disease and other NCCN high-risk men undergoing definitive radiation and radical prostatectomy*

VHR Other NCCN high-risk
Definitive RT RP Definitive RT RP
10-year BFFS, % 37.3 (22.8–51.3) 20.6 (9.0–35.6) 55.2 (41.9–66.6) 41.2 (36.0–46.2)
10-year MFS, % 58.7 (44.9–70.3) 36.9 (19.8–54.2) 83.8 (75.3–89.6) 77.9 (72.2–82.6)
10-year PCSS, % 79.4 (69.2–86.6) 62.2 (44.7–75.5) 93.4 (88.4–96.3) 89.5 (85.0–92.8)
10-year OS, % 63.6 (53.0–72.4) 57.9 (41.6–71.1) 73.0 (65.8–78.9) 83.3 (78.2–87.2)
*

Outcomes for RP cohort were previously published (Sundi D, Wang VM, Pierorazio PM, et al. Very-high-risk localized prostate cancer: definition and outcomes. Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Dis. 2014;17(1):57–63) and had been analyzed using Kaplan-Meier methods and life tables. For the purpose of consistency, we re-analyzed our data using similar methods, which is summarized above.

For patients undergoing definitive radiation, biochemical failure-free survival was defined in accordance with the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group – Association of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology Phoenix Consensus Conference definition.13 For patients undergoing radical prostatectomy, biochemical failure was defined as a post-operative increase in PSA (2 ng/mL)

Abbreviations: very-high-risk (VHR); radiation therapy (RT); radical prostatectomy (RP); biochemical failure-free survival (BFFS); metastasis-free survival (MFS); prostate cancer-specific survival (PCSS); overall survival (OS)