A Systematic Review on the Role of Imaging in Early Recurrent Prostate Cancer

In patients treated for prostate cancer, a rising serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level is a first sign of relapse, but imaging is needed to determine the localization of the recurrence, which may be local, in lymph nodes, and/or metastatic. With the increasing success rate of earlier salvage therapy, the diagnosis has become pertinent when the recurrent PSA level is still very low.To systematically review the literature on the role of the...