High rate of local control and cure at 10 years after treatment of prostate cancer with external beam radiotherapy and high-dose-rate brachytherapy: a single centre experience

HDRBT combined with EBRT is an effective treatment with long-term overall survival and excellent local control for patients with PC. The low rate of local recurrence among men with relapse suggests that these patients were micro metastasised at time of treatment, which calls for improved methods to detect disseminated disease.