Association of Radical Local Treatment with Mortality in Men with Very High-risk Prostate Cancer: A Semiecologic, Nationwide, Population-based Study

TY - JOUR

T1 - Association of Radical Local Treatment with Mortality in Men with Very High-risk Prostate Cancer: A Semiecologic, Nationwide, Population-based Study

AU - Stattin, Pär

AU - Sandin, Fredrik

AU - Thomsen, Frederik Birkebæk

AU - Garmo, Hans

AU - Robinson, David

AU - Lissbrant, Ingela Franck

AU - Jonsson, Håkan

AU - Bratt, Ola

PY - 2016/8/5

Y1 - 2016/8/5

N2 - BackgroundCurrent guidelines recommend androgen deprivation therapy only for men with very high-risk prostate cancer (PCa), but there is little evidence to support this stance.ObjectiveTo investigate the association between radical local treatment and mortality in men with very high-risk PCa.Design, setting, and participantsSemiecologic study of men aged <80 yr within the Prostate Cancer data Base Sweden, diagnosed in 1998–2012 with very high-risk PCa (local clinical stage T4 and/or prostate-specific antigen [PSA] level 50–200 ng/ml, any N, and M0). Men with locally advanced PCa (local clinical stage T3 and PSA level <50 ng/ml, any N, and M0) were used as positive controls.InterventionProportion of men who received prostatectomy or full-dose radiotherapy in 640 experimental units defined by county, diagnostic period, and age at diagnosis.Outcome measurements and statistical analysisPCa and all-cause mortality rate ratios (MRRs).Results and limitationsBoth PCa and all-cause mortality were half as high in units in the highest tertile of exposure to radical local treatment compared with units in the lowest tertile (PCa MRR: 0.51; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.28–0.95; and all-cause MRR: 0.56; 95% CI, 0.33–0.92). The results observed for locally advanced PCa for highest versus lowest tertile of exposure were in agreement with results from randomized trials (PCa MRR: 0.75; 95% CI, 0.60–0.94; and all-cause MRR: 0.85; 95% CI, 0.72–1.00). Although the semiecologic design minimized selection bias on an individual level, the effect of high therapeutic activity could not be separated from that of high diagnostic activity.ConclusionsThe substantially lower mortality in units with the highest exposure to radical local treatment suggests that radical treatment decreases mortality even in men with very high-risk PCa for whom such treatment has been considered ineffective.Patient summaryMen with very high-risk prostate cancer diagnosed and treated in units with the highest exposure to surgery or radiotherapy had a substantially lower mortality.

AB - BackgroundCurrent guidelines recommend androgen deprivation therapy only for men with very high-risk prostate cancer (PCa), but there is little evidence to support this stance.ObjectiveTo investigate the association between radical local treatment and mortality in men with very high-risk PCa.Design, setting, and participantsSemiecologic study of men aged <80 yr within the Prostate Cancer data Base Sweden, diagnosed in 1998–2012 with very high-risk PCa (local clinical stage T4 and/or prostate-specific antigen [PSA] level 50–200 ng/ml, any N, and M0). Men with locally advanced PCa (local clinical stage T3 and PSA level <50 ng/ml, any N, and M0) were used as positive controls.InterventionProportion of men who received prostatectomy or full-dose radiotherapy in 640 experimental units defined by county, diagnostic period, and age at diagnosis.Outcome measurements and statistical analysisPCa and all-cause mortality rate ratios (MRRs).Results and limitationsBoth PCa and all-cause mortality were half as high in units in the highest tertile of exposure to radical local treatment compared with units in the lowest tertile (PCa MRR: 0.51; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.28–0.95; and all-cause MRR: 0.56; 95% CI, 0.33–0.92). The results observed for locally advanced PCa for highest versus lowest tertile of exposure were in agreement with results from randomized trials (PCa MRR: 0.75; 95% CI, 0.60–0.94; and all-cause MRR: 0.85; 95% CI, 0.72–1.00). Although the semiecologic design minimized selection bias on an individual level, the effect of high therapeutic activity could not be separated from that of high diagnostic activity.ConclusionsThe substantially lower mortality in units with the highest exposure to radical local treatment suggests that radical treatment decreases mortality even in men with very high-risk PCa for whom such treatment has been considered ineffective.Patient summaryMen with very high-risk prostate cancer diagnosed and treated in units with the highest exposure to surgery or radiotherapy had a substantially lower mortality.

KW - Prostate cancer

KW - Very high-risk

KW - Radical

KW - Treatment

KW - Semiecologic

KW - Nationwide

KW - Population-based

KW - PCBaSe

U2 - 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.07.023

DO - 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.07.023

M3 - Article

SN - 0302-2838

JO - European Urology

JF - European Urology

ER -