A multicenter study found that the timing of radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy did not significantly affect patients' long-term health-related quality-of-life outcomes.
Receiving radiotherapy after prostatectomy does negatively affect long-term health-related quality of life , including sexual function, urinary incontinence, and urinary irritation, but the timing of radiation after prostatectomy — within a year or over a year from surgery — does not appear to significantly affect patients' quality of life over the long term, a recent analysis finds.
Patients who received early radiotherapy were more likely to receive androgen deprivation therapy than those who underwent late radiotherapy (40.4% vs 12.5%;Primary outcome was health-related quality of life measured using the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite at baseline, 2, 6, and 12 months, and annually after that. Health-related quality-of-life measures included sexual function, urinary incontinence, urinary irritation and/or obstruction, and bowel or rectal function.
In the long term, the early radiotherapy group experienced more pronounced recovery of sexual function, urinary irritation, and urinary incontinence than the late radiotherapy group.
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