Abstract

Hormonal treatment combined with radical prostectomy has shown clinical benefits in patients with localized prostate cancer. However, hormone therapy as adjuvant treatment provides significant survival advantages only in patients with lymph nodes involvement. In others, this treatment is associated with an improvement in survival without biochemical progression but it does not improve specific survival. Consequently, the use of adjuvant hormone therapy should be restricted to patients with lymph node invasion.

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