Discord Among Radiation Oncologists and Urologists in the Postoperative Management of High-Risk Prostate Cancer

Objective: To query specialty-specific differences regarding postoperative radiotherapy (RT) for high-risk prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: Electronic mail survey of radiation oncologists (ROs) and urologists. We sought to maximize absolute response number to capture contemporary practice ethos. The outcome of interest was association between response and specialty. Training level/expertise, practice setting, percentage of consultation caseload consisting of high-risk prostate cancer, and nationality were set as effect modifiers for multivariate logistic regression. Results: In total, 846 ROs and 407 urologists responded. ROs were more likely to prefer adjuvant radiotherapy (ART). ART or early salvage radiotherapy (SRT, with early SRT defined as that delivered at prostate-specific antigen

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