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Advances in physical, technological and biological fields have made radiation oncology a discipline in continual evolution. New current research areas could be implemented in the clinic in the near future. In this review in the form of several interviews, various promising themes for our specialty are described such as the gut microbiota, tumor organoids (or avatar), artificial intelligence, connected therapies, nanotechnologies and plasma laser. The individual prediction of the best therapeutic index combined with the integration of new technologies will ideally allow highly personalized treatment of patients receiving radiation therapy., (Copyright © 2020 Société française de radiothérapie oncologique (SFRO). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Objective: To establish 18 fluorocholine-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-PET/CT) performances for the detection of local recurrence in a population of patients with biochemical failure after primary curative treatment for localized prostate carcinoma., Material and Method: From February 2011 to February 2014, 55 patients underwent a F-PET/CT for biochemical relapse after primary radical therapy for prostate cancer localized or locally advanced. Primary therapies for prostate cancer were 19 radical prostatectomy, 18 radiotherapy, 13 radiotherapy with hormonal treatment, 3 brachytherapy. The median age was 65 years (50-79). The initial staging was 17 T1, 23 T2 and 15 T3, 52 were N0 and N1 3. The median PSA was 12 (3-127). The Gleason score was less than 7, equal to 7 and greater than 7 at 21, 25 and 9 patients respectively. The average time to recurrence was 69.5 months (8-147) with a median PSA of 2.9 ng/mL (0.48-41)., Results: In 42 cases, F-PET/CT showed uptake, suggesting a recurrence, metastatic (6), nodal (26) or local isolated (10). The focal uptake in PET commissioned in 5 cases prostate biopsy, confirming the histological recurrence of prostate cancer in 4 cases. Among the 10 patients with isolated local recurrence, 8 underwent salvage radiotherapy. Of the 13 cases where the (F-PET/CT) showed no recurrence, 7 multiparametric MRI were performed. The MRI showed a local recurrence in 3 patients, the diagnoses were confirmed with prostate biopsy for two of them., Conclusion: In our study, for the patients with biochemical relapse of prostate adenocarcinoma localized or locally advanced, (F-PET/CT) was able to detect local recurrence isolated in nearly half the cases but did not show sufficient sensitivity to exclude recurrence local if negative. It does not replace MRI or additional prostate biopsy., (Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

The combination of radiotherapy and androgen suppression with luteinizing hormone releasing hormone agonist is mainly devoted to locally advanced prostate cancer and intermediate or poor risk localized prostate cancer. They are based on phase III randomized trials which have shown that for locally advanced prostate cancer, a four-month complete androgen blockade initiated two months prior radiotherapy and stopped at the completion of radiotherapy increased overall survival in patients with Gleason scores 2-6, meanwhile, an adjuvant long-term androgen suppression (2.5 to three years) improved significantly the overall survival. Complete androgen blockade with a four to six months duration, combined with external irradiation, enhanced the overall survival in patients with intermediate or poor risk localized prostate cancer., (Copyright © 2010 Société française de radiothérapie oncologique (SFRO). Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.)