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Lead
Virginia Commonwealth University
Patients will receive a single High Dose Rate brachytherapy dose of 6 Gy to the prostate, followed by 61 Gy delivered to the prostate and nearby tissues using Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy in 28 treatments.
Age
Any age
Sex
MALE
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted
You may be eligible if
TRUS biopsy proven adenocarcinoma of the prostate Pretreatment PSA \<30 ng/ml Gleason's sum \< 8 clinical stage T1 or T2a,b. patients that are at low-intermediate risk for disease beyond the prostate normal liver function for all patients beginning hormone therapy Karnofsky Performance score \> 80 acceptable anesthesia risk as determined through routine pre-operative screening in the VCUHS Diagnostic Testing Clinic
You may not be if
pubic-arch interference or regional disease ( no evidence of metastatic disease for patients whose PSA is greater than 10 ng/ml, Gleason's sum is greater than 6, or T-stage is greater than T2a.
Patients at high risk for distant disease (PSA \> 30 ng/ml, Gleason's sum \> 8 or clinical stage \> T2c), clinically involved seminal vesicles or extension beyond the prostate capsule history of inflammatory bowel disease require steroid or cytotoxic therapy for collagen vascular disease uncontrolled or poorly controlled hypertension uncontrolled or poorly controlled diabetes mellitus history of cancer other than skin cancer within five years of the initiation of protocol treatment history of pelvic irradiation require the routine use of warfarin
