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C Pezaro1, A Omlin1, D Lorente1, D Nava Rodrigues1, R Ferraldeschi1, D Bianchini1, D Mukherji1, R Riisnaes1, A Altavilla1, M Crespo1, N Tunariu1, J de Bono1, G Attard1.
Abstract
Metastatic involvement of the viscera in men with advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) has been poorly characterised to date. In 359 CRPC patients treated between June 2003 and December 2011, the frequency of radiologically detected visceral metastases before death was 32%. Of the 92 patients with computed tomography performed within 3 mo of death, 49% had visceral metastases. Visceral metastases most commonly involved the liver (20%) and lung (13%). Median survival from diagnosis of visceral disease was 7.1 mo (95% confidence interval, 5.9-8.3). Survival was affected by the degree of bone involvement at detection of visceral disease, varying from 6.1 mo in men with more than six bone metastases to 18.2 mo in men with no bone metastases (p=0.001). Heterogeneity was noted in clinical phenotypes and prostate-specific antigen trends at development of visceral metastases. Visceral metastases are now more commonly detected in men with CRPC, likely due to the introduction of novel survival-prolonging treatments.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24295792 PMCID： PMC4881819 DOI： 10.1016/j.eururo.2013.10.055
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Urol ISSN： 0302-2838 Impact factor: 20.096