Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Is it Only a Matter of Perspective?

Giuseppe Di Lorenzo; Carlo Buonerba

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2018.12.010

Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Is it Only a Matter of Perspective?

Eur Urol. 2019 May;75(5):705-706. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2018.12.010. Epub 2018 Dec 24.

Authors

Giuseppe Di Lorenzo¹, Carlo Buonerba²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: dilorengiuseppe@gmail.com.
² Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University Federico II of Naples, Naples, Italy; Zoo-prophylactic Institute of Southern Italy, Portici, Italy.

PMID: 30591352
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2018.12.010

Abstract

The oligometastatic state of prostate cancer (PC) is of clinical importance because of its implications for surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapy. Improving the definition of oligometastatic PC will offer an opportunity to discover whether disease burden is a clinically meaningful variable or if oligometastasis is a distinctive state of PC with a largely unexplored biological background.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Clinical Trials as Topic
Humans
Male
Neoplasm Metastasis
Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology*
Prostatic Neoplasms / therapy*
Tumor Burden