In men with locally advanced prostate cancer, cardiovascular mortality was 5.9% with longer-term goserelin versus 4.8% with short-term goserelin (p=0.16).
In plain wordsIn men with prostate cancer, cardiovascular mortality did not significantly differ between longer-term and short-term goserelin.
- Peptide
- Goserelin
- Outcome
- No significant changeCardiovascular mortality at 5 years
- Study
n = 1,554
- Comparator
- Short-term goserelin
- Outcome group
- Mortality · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · 24 months additional goserelinAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Cardiovascular mortality at 5 years
- 5.9%
- longer-term adjuvant goserelin
- Cardiovascular mortality at 5 years
- 4.8%
- short-term goserelin
- Gray's p
- 0.16 unitless
- cardiovascular mortality at 5 years
Source sentences
At 5 yr, cardiovascular mortality for men receiving longer-term adjuvant goserelin was 5.9% versus 4.8% with short-term goserelin (Gray's p=0.16).
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
From 1992 to 1995, 1554 men with locally advanced prostate cancer (T2c-4, prostate-specific antigen [PSA] <150 ng/ml) received RT and 4 mo of goserelin and then were randomized to no additional therapy (arm 1) or 24 mo adjuvant goserelin (arm 2) in a phase 3 trial (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group [RTOG] 92-02).