Population-based analysis of long-term results in III-IV stageprostate cancer without distant metastases
The publication is devoted to the results of population-based analysis of long-term results in III-IV stage prostate cancer without distantmetastases which during the period 1990-2006 was diagnosed with prostate cancer and for which they underwent treatment and/or monitoringin cancer facilities of the Republic of Belarus. The study justified the advisability of expanding the indications for performing radical prostatectomy in this category of men; escalation ofradiation dose to the prostate gland during external beam radiation therapy with long-term hormonal therapy; the need to find more accuratemethods for assessing the extent of the prevalence of malignant process in order to identify the lesion of regional lymph nodes, as well as the needto search for new combined and complex methods of treatment for locally advanced prostate cancer