Stereotactic radiation therapy for prostate cancer: state of the art radical treatment.

Over the past few years, radiation methods of treating prostate cancer have taken the first place in the level of recommendation in foreign oncourological practice. Stereotactic radiation therapy (STRT) is one of the most promising and high-tech methods of remote irradiation of prostate cancer. The STRT protocol was developed and introduced into clinical practice in the radiotherapy department of the N.N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. The protocol developed and introduced into clinical practice methods aimed at achieving a high level of control over the tumor process and low rates of radiation-induced complications. Short treatment periods, high efficiency and low level of post-radiation complications provide grounds to consider this method as the optimal method of radical treatment of prostate cancer in low and in- termediate risk groups of relapse. 432 patients were treated with SRT in monotherapy (without combination with other methods of radiation treatment).