Table 3. Salvage focal cryotherapy outcomes.
Author | Year | n | Median age (years) |
Median pre-salvage PSA (ng/mL) | Median follow-up (months) | Biochemical disease-free survival |
Metastasis | Conversion to second-line salvage therapies |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eisenberg and Shinohara (44) | 2008 | 19 | 71 (avg.) | 3.3 (avg.) | 18 | 89% (1 year); 67% (2 years); 50% (3 years) | 17.6% | n.a. |
De Castro Abreu et al. (38) | 2013 | 25 | 61 | 2.8 | 31 | 54.4% (5 years) | 0% | n.a. |
†Wenske et al. (45) | 2013 | 55 | 66 | 4 | 37 | 47% (5 years); 42% (10 years) | n.a. | n.a. |
Bomers et al. (46) | 2013 | 10 | 67 | 3.8 | 12 | n.a. | 10% | 40.0% (focal sCT: 3, ADT: 1) |
Li et al. (47) | 2015 | 91 | 71.1 (avg.) | 4.8 | 15 | 95.3% (1 year); 72.4% (3 years); 46.5% (5 years) | n.a. | n.a. |
Overduin et al. (48) | 2017 | 47 | 66 | 4.9 | 24 | 51% (1 year) | 21.3% | n.a. |
Kongnyuy et al. (49) | 2017 | 65 | 71 | 4 | 26.6 | 48.1% (1 and 3 years) | n.a. | n.a. |
†, primary treatment: RT in 80%, cryotherapy in 20%. RT, radiotherapy; avg., average; n.a., not available; PSA, prostate-specific antigen; ADT, androgen deprivation therapy; sCT, salvage cryotherapy.