Actas Urol Esp. 2011 Oct;35(9):501-14. doi: 10.1016/j.acuro.2011.04.004. Epub 2011 Jul 14.

[EAU guidelines on prostate cancer. Part I: screening, diagnosis, and treatment of clinically localised disease].

Actas urologicas espanolas

[Article in Spanish]
A Heidenreich, J Bellmunt, M Bolla, S Joniau, M Mason, V Matveev, N Mottet, H P Schmid, T van der Kwast, T Wiegel, F Zattoni

PMID: 21757259 DOI: 10.1016/j.acuro.2011.04.004

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to present a summary of the 2010 version of the European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines on the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of clinically localised cancer of the prostate (PCa).

METHODS: The working panel performed a literature review of the new data emerging from 2007 to 2010. The guidelines were updated, and level of evidence and grade of recommendation were added to the text based on a systematic review of the literature, which included a search of online databases and bibliographic reviews.

RESULTS: A full version is available at the EAU office or Web site (www.uroweb.org). Current evidence is insufficient to warrant widespread population-based screening by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) for PCa. A systematic prostate biopsy under ultrasound guidance and local anaesthesia is the preferred diagnostic method. Active surveillance represents a viable option in men with low-risk PCa and a long life expectancy. PSA doubling time in < 3 yr or a biopsy progression indicates the need for active intervention. In men with locally advanced PCa in whom local therapy is not mandatory, watchful waiting (WW) is a treatment alternative to androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) with equivalent oncologic efficacy. Active treatment is mostly recommended for patients with localised disease and a long life expectancy with radical prostatectomy (RP) shown to be superior to WW in a prospective randomised trial. Nerve-sparing RP represents the approach of choice in organ-confined disease; neoadjuvant androgen deprivation demonstrates no improvement of outcome variables. Radiation therapy should be performed with at least 74Gy and 78Gy in low-risk and intermediate/high-risk PCa, respectively. For locally advanced disease, adjuvant ADT for 3 yr results in superior disease-specific and overall survival rates and represents the treatment of choice. Follow-up after local therapy is largely based on PSA, and a disease-specific history with imaging is indicated only when symptoms occur.

CONCLUSIONS: The knowledge in the field of PCa is rapidly changing. These EAU guidelines on PCa summarise the most recent findings and put them into clinical practice.

Copyright © 2011 AEU. Published by Elsevier Espana. All rights reserved.

MeSH terms

• Humans
• Male
• Neoplasm Staging
• Practice Guidelines as Topic
• Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis
• Prostatic Neoplasms / therapy

Publication Types

• English Abstract
• Journal Article