ArticleClinical and translational radiation oncology2022
Single fraction of HDR brachytherapy for prostate cancer: Results of the SiFEPI phase II prospective trial.
Article in Clinical and translational radiation oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02104362 (A Phase I-II Study to Evaluate Exclusive Single-fraction Irradiation by Interstitial High Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Patients With Prostate Cancer at Low Risk or at Low Intermediate Risk of Local Recurrence), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Phase I-II Study to Evaluate Exclusive Single-fraction Irradiation by Interstitial High Dose Rate Brachytherapy in Patients With Prostate Cancer at Low Risk or at Low Intermediate Risk of Local Recurrence
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- Partial or focal brachytherapy for prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of radiology · 2025Pooled it
- Safety and efficacy associated with single-fraction high-dose-rate brachytherapy in localized prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2023Pooled it
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- Single-Dose Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer: Where Does the Evidence Lead?Cancers · 2025Review
- Single-fraction high-dose-rate brachytherapy as monotherapy for localized prostate cancer: long-term follow-up study based on meta-analysis.Journal of Cancer · 2025Article
- Perirectal spacers in radiotherapy for prostate cancer - a systematic review and meta-analysis.Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Purpose: To report the results of the Materials/Methods: The SiFEPI trial (NCT02104362) evaluated a single fraction of high-dose rate brachytherapy (HDB) for low- (LR) and favorable-intermediate (FIR) risk prostate cancers. After rectal spacer placement, a single fraction of 20 Gy was delivered to the prostate. Oncological outcome (biochemical (bRFS) and local (lRFS) relapses, disease-free (DFS) and overall (OS) survivals and toxicity (acute/late genito-urinary (GU), gastro-intestinal (GI) and sexual (S) toxicities were investigated. Results: From 03/2014 to 10/2017, 35 pts were enrolled, of whom 33 were evaluable. With a median age of 66 y [46-79], 25 (76 %) and 8 (24 %) pts were LR and FIR respectively. With a MFU of 72.8 months [64-86], 6y-bRFS, lRFS and mRFS were 62 % [45-85], 61 % [44-85] and 93 % [85-100] respectively while 6y-DFS, CSS and OS were 54 % [37-77], 100 % and 89 % [77-100] respectively. Late GU, GI and S toxicities were observed in 11 pts (33 %;18G1), 4 pts (12 %;4G1) and 7 pts (21 %;1G1,5G2,1G3) respectively. Biochemical relapse (BR) was observed in 11 pts (33 %;7LR,4FIR) with a median time interval between HDB and BR of 51 months [24-69]. Nine of these pts (82 %) presented a histologically proven isolated local recurrence. Conclusions: Long-term results of the SiFEPI trial show that a single fraction of 20 Gy leads to sub-optimal biochemical control for LR/FIR prostate cancers. The late GU and GI toxicity profile is encouraging, leading to consideration of HDB as a safe irradiation technique.
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