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. 2020 Jun;9(3):1535–1545. doi: 10.21037/tau.2019.08.21

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.