Prostate Cancer

A focused discussion on how ADT is used as the backbone of prostate cancer therapy across different prostate cancer risk groups and according to metastatic and castration sensitivity status.

Tia Higano, MD, FACP, provides a historical perspective on prostate cancer the use of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) and on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in diagnosis and monitoring.

In addition to the benefit seen with hormone therapy plus metastasis-directed radiation in oligometastatic prostate cancer, use of intermittent hormone therapy may result in positive disease control and longer eugonadal testosterone intervals.

Factors including ARID1A mutations and tumor mutational burden appear to correlate with progression-free survival and overall survival following immunotherapy for advanced bladder cancer.

An expert from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute indicates that urologists should refer patients with prostate cancer who present with multiple high-risk factors at surgery to a radiation and medical oncologist.

Fifteen-year results of the ProtecT prostate cancer trial may support the findings of the study’s 10-year follow-up data, according to an expert from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Increasing age, higher Gleason scores, and higher pathologic stages are predictors of mortality in patients with prostate cancer, according to an expert from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Clinical trials highlight benefits, including radiographic progression-free survival following treatment with radioligand 177Lu-PSMA-617 in pretreated patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Early data from ongoing clinical trials suggest the potential safety and efficacy of novel radium-223 combinations as treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Current clinical trials look to assess 177Lu-PSMA-617 in combination with other therapies including androgen deprivation therapy and docetaxel.

An expert from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute indicates that patients with prostate cancer who have 1 risk factor should undergo salvage radiotherapy following radical prostatectomy before their prostate-specific antigen level rises above 0.25 ng/ml.

An expert from Weill Cornell Medicine highlights key clinical data indicating the benefits of radium-223 in the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

A genetic analysis indicates that multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores may be “potentially useful” in detecting risk of aggressive prostate cancer in patients of African ancestry, according to an expert from the University of Southern California.

Enzalutamide plus leuprolide appears to improve metastases-free survival vs placebo plus leuprolide in patients with non-metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

The risk of radionuclide exposure to the public reflects one reason urologists need to collaborate with radiation oncologists when administering radiopharmaceuticals to patients with prostate cancer.

Switching out beta emitters for alpha emitters, including radium-223, is one way to improve radiopharmaceutical treatment of prostate cancer, according to an expert from Weill Cornell Medicine.

Use of a kit that prepares for gallium Ga 68 gozetotide injection in the phase 3 VISION study affirms its ability to identify patients who are suitable to receive PSMA-based radioligand for metastatic prostate cancer.

Anthony D’Amico, MD, PhD, reviewed current practices and unanswered questions surrounding radiotherapy in the realm of prostate cancer.

Matthew Dallos, MD, discusses current challenges in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer and the potential of antibody-drug conjugates in this disease space.

Insight from cardiologist Anees A. Daud, MD, following his viewing of AbbVie’s educational video on cardiovascular risk and androgen deprivation therapy.

Insight from Urologist David Morris, MD, FACS, as he reacts to the educational video from AbbVie on cardiovascular risk and androgen deprivation therapy.

Cardiologist Anees A. Daud, MD, highlights how a cardiologist may followup with patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy and how multidisciplinary care plays a role in this setting.

David Morris, MD, FACS, shares advice on followup with patients on androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.

All patients with platinum-resistant, small-cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer who responded to treatment with BXCL701 plus pembrolizumab were microsatellite stable and/or tumor mutational burden–low with a low probability of response to pembrolizumab.

Data from a phase 2 placebo-controlled trial may support darolutamide switch maintenance therapy following at least 1 androgen receptor pathway inhibitor and taxane chemotherapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.