Radioterapia de salvamento para pacientes con cáncer de próstata: experiencia en el Instituto Nacional de Cancerología Salvage Radiotherapy for Prostate-Specific Antigen Relapse after Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer: Experience at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología

Objective: To describe a National Cancer Institute (NCI) study on rescue radiotherapy carried out among patients who had biochemical relapse following radical prostatectomy. Methods: A retrospective, observational study was performed on cases treated from 2003 to 2007; descriptive statistics, using relative frequency as well as measures of central tendency and dispersion, were used to analyze information. Disease free survival was described. Results: A total of 40 patients who underwent rescue radiotherapy for biochemical relapse