ESTRO Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer 2018

“we estimate that the local recurrence rate of LDR-PB in our study cohort likely lies in the range of 1.8% to 2.7%. ”

Thus, the local relapse rate should range from 1.0% to 2.2% , but it is likely to be closer to the biopsy-proven 1.0% of patients, because all other men with biochemical failure in this cohort had negative biopsy results