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Table 1 Summary of papers describing prognostic tools relating to clinical outcomes following radiation therapy (2007–2015)

From: An appraisal of analytical tools used in predicting clinical outcomes following radiation therapy treatment of men with prostate cancer: a systematic review

Author

Recruitment window

Country

Population

Outcome

Study type

Setting

Bittner [27]

1995–2006

USA

Prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy

BFFF, PCSM

Retrospective

Single centre

Buyyounouski [38]

1989–2000

Canada, Aust, USA

Men previously treated with EBRT for clinically localized prostate adenocarcinoma and subsequently diagnosed with BCF.

PCSM

Retrospective

Multi-centre

Cooperberg [39]

1995–2007

USA

Men enrolled in CaPSURE

PCSM

Retrospective

Multi-centre (CaPSURE Registry)

Cooperberg [40]

1995–2008

USA

Men with localized disease who underwent prostatectomy, received external-beam radiation, or received primary androgen deprivation; and had at least 6 months of follow-up recorded.

10 year PCSM

Retrospective

Multi-centre (CaPSURE Registry)

D’Ambrosio [41]

1989–2004

USA

Men with prostate cancer treated with RT.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

D’Amico [42]

1991–2005

USA

Men with high-risk prostate cancer (locally or advanced) and 10 year life expectancy treated with brachytherapy who were observed for a min of 2 years.

PCSM and presence of hormone-refractory metastatic prostate cancer.

Prospective

Multi-centre

D’Amico [43]

1988–2004

USA

Men who underwent RT for prostate cancer for at least 1 high-risk feature.

PCSM

Prospective

Multi-centre

Delouya [19]

2002-Not stated

Canada

Men with low or intermediate-risk prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy, EBRT within a phase II or III research protocol, or ERBT outside of a protocol.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

Denham [44]

1996–2000

Australia & New Zealand

Men with locally advanced prostate cancer receiving RT

PCSM

Prospective

Multi-centre

Engineer [9]

1984–2004

India

Patients with a histological diagnosis of prostate cancer

BFFF, PCSM, DM, BCF, OS

Retrospective

Single centre

Feng [28]

1998–2008

USA

Men with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with EBRT.

FFM, PCSM, BFFF, OS

Retrospective

Single centre

Frank [45]

1996–2006

USA, Canada, Netherlands.

Men with prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy with at least 30 months of follow-up.

PSA failure.

Retrospective

Multi -centre

Frank [25]

1998–2006

USA

Men with prostate cancer treated with permament 125 I brachytherapy.

5 year BFFF

Retrospective

Single centre

Halverson [46]

1998–2008

USA

Men with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with EBRT with or without adjuvant ADT

BFFF

Retrospective

Single centre

Huang [47]

1993–2003

USA, Australia

Men with clinical Stage T1c-T3N0M0 prostate adenocarcinoma treated with EBRT with or without a high-dose rate brachytherapy boost.

BCF, DM, PCSM,OS.

Retrospective

Single centre

Kaplan [12]

2000–2009

Israel

Patients with prostate cancer treated with 125 I- brachytherapy.

BFFF

Retrospective

Single centre

Krishnan [20]

2003–2008

Canada

Men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer with a minimum follow-up of 3 years.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

Kubicek [48]

1998–2004

USA

Men with biopsy proven T1-T2 prostate adenocarcinoma treated with EBRT & LDR.

CSS

Retrospective

Single centre

Marshall [11]

1990–2009

USA

Men treated with brachytherapy for biopsy-proven prostate adenocarcinoma.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

McKenna [49]

1998–2003

USA

Men with biopsy-proved prostate cancer who had MRI imaging prior to EBRT.

Metastatic recurrence and BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

Murgic [50]

1998–2008

USA

Men with clinically localized prostate adenocarcinoma treated with EBRT.

BFFF, FFM,PCSM and OS

Retrospective

Single centre

Potters [16]

Not stated

USA

Prostate cancer patients treated with brachytherapy.

9-year BFFF

Retrospective

Multi-centre

Proust-Lima [51]

Not stated

USA

Men treated for localized prostate cancer with EBRT.

BCF

Prospective

Multi-centre

Qian [52]

1998–2008

USA

Men who were treated with EBRT for clinically localized prostate cancer with or without neoadjuvant or adjuvant ADT.

BFFF, FFM,OS, PCSM.

Retrospective

Single centre

Rodrigues [14]

Not stated

Canada

Men with prostate cancer.

BFFF, OS

Retrospective

Multi-centre (GUROC ProCaRS database)

Sabolch [53]

1998–2008

USA

Men treated for localized prostate cancer with EBRT.

BFFF, FFM,OS, PCSM.

Prospective

Single centre

Sanpaolo [21]

2000–2004

Italy

Men with T1-T3 NO prostate cancer.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

Slater [54]

1991–1999

USA

Randomly selected prostate cancer patients treated with proton and photon beam therapy.

bNED

Retrospective

Single centre

Spratt [55]

1997–2008

USA

Men with localized prostate cancer were treated with IMRT.

BCF, DMFS, BCR

Retrospective

Single centre

Steigler [56]

1996–2000

Australia & New Zealand

Men with localised advanced prostate cancer treated with RT and experienced BCF prior to clinical failure or secondary theraputic intervention.

TTBF, PCSM,distant progression and STI from BCF

Retrospective

Multi-centre

Sylvester [57]

1988–1992

USA

Men with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with implanted I-125.

15 year BFFF,CSS and OS.

Prospective

Consecutive case series

Taylor [58]

Not stated

USA

Men with localized prostate cancer,NO/MO treated with RT.

Clinical recurrence (local, regional or distant)

Retrospective

Multi-centre

Thames [59]

1987–1995

USA

Men with clinical stages T1b, T1c, and T2 N0M0 biopsy proven prostate adenocarcinoma.

BCF

Retrospective

Multi-centre

Vainshtein [18]

1998–2008

USA

Men with localized prostate cancer treated with EBRT, +/− ADT

FFM, PCSM.

Prospective

Single centre

Vance [60]

1998–2008

USA

Men with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with EBRT, with or without neoadjuvant or adjuvant ADT.

BFFF, DMFS, PCSM & OS.

Retrospective

Single centre

Wattson [61]

1991–2007

USA

Men with high-risk prostate cancer.

PCSM

Retrospective

Multicentre

Westphalen [62]

1998–2007

USA

Prostate cancer patients who underwent endorectal MR and MR spectroscopy prior to EBRT.

BCF

Retrospective

Multi-centre (national administrative data set)

Williams [17]

1991–2002

US, Canada, Australia

Men with clinical T1–4 N0/X M0/X prostate adenocarcinoma treated with EBRT.

BCF

Retrospective

Multi-centre

Yoshida [15]

2003–2008

Japan

Men with histologically-proven prostate adenocarcinoma, treated with HDR-ISBT.

5 year PSA failure and OS

Retrospective

Single centre

Yu [63]

1987–2001

USA

Men with prostate cancer treated with EBRT.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

Yu [64]

1993–2002

USA

Men newly diagnosed with clinically node-negative, localized adenocarcinoma of the prostate treated with EBRT.

BCF

Retrospective

Single centre

Zaorsky [65]

1992–2004

USA

Men with clinical stage T1-4, NO/NX-N1, MO adenocarcinoma of the prostate received RT with or without adjuvant ADT.

BCF,DM, OS.

Retrospective

Single centre

Zelefsky [66]

1988–2004

USA

Men with clinically staged T1-T3 node-negative prostate cancer treated with 3D-CRT or IMRT.

DMFS, BFFF.

Retrospective

Single centre

Zelefsky [67]

1998–2000

USA

Men with clinically localized prostate cancer treated with 3D-CRT or IMRT.

DM,PCSM,BFFF

Retrospective

Single centre

Zelefsky [68]

1988–2004

USA

Men with Stage T1-T3 prostate cancer treated with 3D-CRT or IMRT.

PSA relapse

Retrospective

Single centre

Zelefsky [10]

1998–2009

USA

Men with clinically localised prostate cancer treated with brachytherapy.

BFFF

Retrospective

Single centre

Zumsteg [69]

1992–2007

USA

Men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer, but without high-risk features treated with EBRT.

BCF, BFFF, LF,PCSM, DM.

Retrospective

Single centre

  1. Abbreviations: OS overall survival, CaPSURE Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavour, RT radiotherapy, BCF bio chemical failure, BFFF bio chemical freedom from failure, PCSM prostate cancer specific mortality, PSA-RFS prostate-specific antigen recurrence-free survival, LF local failure, DM distant metastases, DMFS distant metastases-free survival, FFM freedom from metastases, HDR-ISBT high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy, TTBF time to bio chemical failure, STI secondary therapeutic intervention, bNED bio chemical no evidence of diseaese, 2D-CRT 2D - Conformal radiotherapy, 3D-CRT 3D -Conformal radiotherapy, EBRT external beam radiotherapy, LDR brachytherapy low dose rate brachytherapy, NO/NX no nodal involvement, I-125 Iodine 125 brachytherapy