As novel therapies improve survival for men with prostate cancer, intracranial metastatic disease has become more common. The purpose of this multicenter study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in the management of intracranial prostate cancer metastases.
Demographic data, primary tumor characteristics, SRS treatment parameters, and clinical and imaging follow-up data of patients from nine institutions treated with SRS from July 2005 to June 2020 for cerebral metastases from prostate carcinoma were collected and analyzed.
Forty-six patients were treated in 51 SRS procedures for 120 prostate cancer intracranial metastases. At SRS, the mean patient age was 68.04 ± 9.05 years, the mean time interval from prostate cancer diagnosis to SRS was 4.82 ± 4.89 years, and extracranial dissemination was noted in 34 (73.9%) patients. The median patient Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) score at SRS was 80, and neurological symptoms attributed to intracranial involvement were present prior to 39 (76%) SRS procedures. Single-fraction SRS was used in 49 procedures. Stereotactic radiotherapy using 6 Gy in five sessions was utilized in 2 procedures. The median margin dose was 18 (range 6-28) Gy, and the median tumor volume was 2.45 (range 0.04-45) ml. At a median radiological follow-up of 6 (range 0-156) months, local progression was seen with 14 lesions. The median survival following SRS was 15.18 months, and the 1-year overall intracranial progression-free survival was 44%. The KPS score at SRS was noted to be associated with improved overall (p = 0.02) and progression-free survival (p = 0.03). Age ≥ 65 years at SRS was associated with decreased overall survival (p = 0.04). There were no serious grade 3-5 toxicities noted.
SRS appears to be a safe, well-tolerated, and effective management option for patients with prostate cancer intracranial metastases.
Journal of neurosurgery. 2021 Oct 01 [Epub ahead of print]
Stylianos Pikis, Adomas Bunevicius, Cheng-Chia Lee, Huai-Che Yang, Brad E Zacharia, Roman Liščák, Gabriela Simonova, Manjul Tripathi, Narendra Kumar, David Mathieu, Rémi Perron, Selcuk Peker, Yavuz Samanci, Jason Gurewitz, Kenneth Bernstein, Douglas Kondziolka, Ajay Niranjan, L Dade Lunsford, Nikolaos Mantziaris, Jason P Sheehan
1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia., 2Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, and National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan., 3Department of Neurosurgery, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania., 4Department of Radiation and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic., Departments of5Neurosurgery and., 6Radiotherapy, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India., 7Division of Neurosurgery, Université de Sherbrooke, Centre de recherché du CHUS, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada., 8Department of Neurosurgery, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey., Departments of9Radiation Oncology and., 10Neurosurgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York., 11Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and., 12Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece.