Relapse of prostate cancer from the viewpoint of total gland volume kinetics theory

• 来源期刊: 亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2015,（6）
• 页码范围: 904-907
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 中文
• DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.153543

摘要

In many cases of prostate cancer, changes of prostate volume were measured veryfrequently after castration by means of transrectal ultrasound.For short-term observations, a factor called as "reduction time (tau [τ])," which means the time required for the volume of "effective portion" (volume responded to castration) to be reduced to one-tenth of its original value, correlated very well with patients'prognosis.For long-term observations for relapse, changes of prostate volume could be divided clearly into two types, namely, "metastatic progressive type" with metastasis without volume increase and "local progressive type" with remarkable volume increase without metastasis."τ" in the "local progressive type" was far shorter than that in the "metastatic progressivetype."