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ArticleCureus2025

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Without Androgen Deprivation in a 92-Year-Old With Oligometastatic Stage IVA Prostate Cancer: A Case Report.

Pericles J Ioannides, Shane A Tipton, Georg A Weidlich

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Pericles J IoannidesRadiation Oncology, Adventist Health System, Sonora, USA.
Shane A TiptonMedical Oncology, Adventist Health System, Sonora, USA.
Georg A WeidlichRadiation Oncology, National Medical Physics and Dosimetry Company, Palo Alto, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report a case of a 92-year-old elderly male with Stage IVA oligometastatic prostate adenocarcinoma to the pelvic nodes managed successfully with stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) alone. The patient declined androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with concerns about quality of life and reported side effects. He was treated with weekly SBRT targeting the prostate and pelvic lymph nodes without a rectal spacer, experiencing only Grade 1 urinary toxicity. The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) significantly declined from 12.05 to 0.16 ng/ml at the six-month follow-up. This case shows the feasibility and tolerability of SBRT as monotherapy in select elderly patients with regional risk node-positive prostate cancer.

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androgen deprovation therapyelderly patientnonagenarianoligometastaticpelvic lymph nodesprostate cancerquality of liferectal spacersbrtstereotactic body radiotherapy

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PMID41185839
PMCPMC12579760

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