SURGICAL TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER AT HIGH RISK OF PROGRESSION

Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most burning problems of modern urologic oncology. Patients at its high risk are characterized by a more aggressive course of the disease and significantly lower tumor-specific and relapse-free survival rates. Hormone therapy and radiotherapy are one of the conventional treatments in patients with PC at high risk of progression. Nonetheless, more and more publications demonstrating the efficiency and safety of surgical therapy in this contingent of patients are recently appearing. This paper presents the results of surgical treat-ment in 499 patients with PC at high risk of progression, who have undergone radical prostatectomy with extended pelvic lymphadenectomy at the Department of Urologic Oncology, P.A. Herzen Moscow Oncology Research Institute.