Neoadjuvant Radiohormonal Therapy for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer

The present study will be conducted as a prospective, open-label, two arms clinical trial. Patients with ≤ 3 de novo oligometastatic PCa, diagnosed on Ga-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT, will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio between arm A (hormone) and arm B (neoadjuvant hormone and RT). The patients in arm A with oligometastatic PCa will receive long-term ADT combined with abiraterone. The patients in arm B with oligometastatic PCa will receive 1 month of naADT, followed by metastasis-directed radiation and abdominal or pelvic radiotherapy. Then, radical prostatectomy will be performed at intervals of 5-15 weeks after radiotherapy, and long-term ADT will be continued. The primary endpoints of the study are progression-free survival (PFS) including biochemical recurrence-free survival (bPFS), and radiological progression-free survival (RPFS). The secondary endpoints include quality of life (QoL), time to CRPC, positive surgical margin (pSM), overall survival (OS), postoperative continence, and toxicities parameters.

Inclusion criteria

• Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate without small cell features
• Oligometastatic PCa assessed by Ga-68 prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), PET/CT
• <4 bone oligometastases, lymph node metastasis below the renal artery level
• Expected survival time >5 years
• World Health Organization (WHO) performance status 0-1
• Be willing to give written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Any previous or ongoing treatment for PCa, including radiotherapy, ADT, chemotherapy, focal treatment, etc.
• Patients who have previously undergone transurethral resection or enucleation of the prostate.
• Patients who have undergone other abdominal surgery within the last 3 months
• Patients who have visceral metastases
• Patients with a history of long-term anticoagulant use and anti-platelet drug use and who stopped anticoagulant therapy less than 1 week before registration
• Patients with other malignancies and acute or chronic infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (+), hepatitis C virus (HCV) (+) and/or positive syphilis
• Severe or active comorbidities likely to impact the advisability of radiotherapy
• Any other serious underlying medical, psychiatric, psychological, familial, or geographical condition, which, according to the judgement of the investigator, may affect the planned staging, treatment and follow-up or patient compliance or may cause high-risk treatmentrelated complications for the patient
• Patients who have participated in other clinical trials within the last 3 months
• Patients who refuse to undergo RALP
• Patients unsuitable for participation in this clinical trial as per the judgement of the investigator.