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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Brachytherapy. 2017 Jan 16;16(2):245–265. doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2016.11.017

Table 2.

Intermediate Risk Disease (IR)

IR Type of the study Study
years
Number
of
patients
Median
FU in
years
Sub Group
Risk
stratification
Treatment %
on
ADT
Median
ADT
duration
Overall
bPFS
ADT
benefit
to bPFS
Overall
CSS
ADT benefit
to CSS
Overall
OS
ADT
benefit
to OS
Comments/factors
Predictive of outcome
LDR
Rosenberg (75) Chicago 1997-2007 807 4.5y (IQR2.7-6.2y) NR LDR±ADT or EBRT+LDR 76% 4mo (2-6 mo) NR NR 98% Benefit to ADT (2%) NR NR PCSM (3.3 vs 1.1% EBRT+PB vs PB+ ADT)
CSS (iPSA, GS4+3, no ADT)
Tran (76) Multiinstitutional UK 2003-2007 615 5y (0.3-8.3y) NR LDR±ADT 17% 4mo 88% No benefit NR NR NR NR bPFS (iPSA)
Ho (77) Mount Sinai NY 2009 1990-2004 558 5y 1 IRF: 68%
2 IRF: 26%
3 IRF: 5%
LDR±EBRT±ADT 74% 3-9 mo 86% No benefit NR NR NR NR bPFS (BED <150Gy2, 10% benefit to ADT, p=ns)
Keane (78) Harvard Boston MA 1997-2013 2510 7,8y (IQR5.3-10.5) fIR: 76%
uIR: 24%
LDR±ADT, or EBRT+LDR 33% 4mo NR NR NR Benefit ADT only in unfavourable IR (HR 0.34 CI .13-.91) NR NR CSS (Year of PB, ADT (uIR and risk stratification)
Bittner (79) Multiinstitutional US 1995-2001 932 7,4y 90%IR
GS 3+4: 58%
GS 4+3: 41%
LDR+EBRT,±ADT 29% 6mo 95% No benefit 98% No benefit 77% No benefit bPFS (GS, iPSA, stage)
CSS(nil)
OS(age, diabetes, tobacco, CAD)
Stock (80) Mount Sinai NY 1994-2006 432 4,6y (23-155 mo) 1 IRF: 47%
2IRF: 41%
3IRF: 12%
LDR+EBRT±ADT 81% 4mo (324) 92% No benefit NR NR NR NR bPFS(iPSA, GS, CS, number of risk features)