Key clinical point: External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) does not show a survival benefit in newly diagnosed elderly patients with metastatic prostate cancer.
Major finding: Patients who received EBRT vs. those who did not showed similar overall survival (hazard ratio [HR], 0.97; P = .6) and cancer-specific survival (HR, 1.04; P = .4).
Study details: A retrospective study of 6,556 patients, aged 75 years and above, with metastatic prostate cancer identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database between 2004 and 2016, of which 1,105 received EBRT.
Disclosures: No study source was identified for this work. The authors declared no conflict of interests.
Source: Wenzel M et al. Prostate. 2021 Oct 11. doi: 10.1002/pros.24249 .