Usefulness of robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy in a patient with oligometastatic castration‐resistant prostate cancer

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The patients with prostate cancer and low-volume osseous metastases who underwent local definitive therapies had lower risks of cancer-specific mortality. The usefulness of local definitive therapy for metastatic prostate cancer remains unclear. CASE PRESENTATION: A 76-year-old man visited a private hospital with a chief complaint of left lower limb pain. His serum prostate-specific antigen level was 365.156 ng/mL. Histological evaluation led to the initial diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of Gleason score 4 + 4 and clinical stage T3a N1 M1b. Although androgen deprivation therapy was performed, he developed metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer 6 months after the initial treatment. Therefore, he received enzalutamide and attained a serum prostate-specific antigen level of 0.002 ng/mL 7 months after the second treatment. We performed robot-assisted radical prostatectomy 1 year after diagnosis. Histopathological examination revealed that prostate cancer cells disappeared into the prostate. CONCLUSION: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in selected patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer may improve oncological outcomes.