Prostate Cancer

Educational strategies including pamphlets and recommendations from family physicians and support from a specialist can improve bone care in men with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy.

The use of bipolar androgen therapy was safe and resulted in responses to enzalutamide in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients after initial therapy.

Multiple immunotherapy platforms have been investigated for prostate cancer, but sipuleucel-T still remains the sole approved autologous cellular immune product that can be used in men with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

A novel classification system that incorporates genomic risk with clinical variables was able to accurately identify prostate cancer patients at low, intermediate, and high risk for metastasis.

In this review, we will examine the theories supporting treatment to achieve local disease control in oligometastatic prostate cancer, analyze the evidence supporting cytoreductive prostatectomy, and review selected relevant ongoing clinical trials.

Quality of life is better after modern radiotherapy compared with surgery.

Most men with clinically important localized prostate cancer deserve first-line open or robotic radical prostatectomy.

Men with Medicaid are more likely to present with metastatic prostate cancer than men presenting with prostate cancer who have private insurance, according to a new study. There are racial disparities in terms of prostate cancer outcomes among those privately insured, but not among Medicaid recipients.

In this interview we discuss the STOPCaP trial, a meta-analysis that looked at optimal systemic therapy options for men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Serial PSA testing with early salvage radiotherapy is a viable option in most high-risk men.

The data for adjuvant radiotherapy remain strong.

This video reviews 4-year quality-of-life results from a prospective, population-based study that looked at prostate cancer patients who selected either active surveillance, radical prostatectomy, or external-beam radiation.

This video highlights a new study that found that markers of immune response in prostate cancer may be able to predict patients’ response to radiation therapy, likelihood of recurrence, and survival.

This video highlights potentially practice-changing studies on genitourinary cancers presented at the 2017 ASTRO Annual Meeting.

The presence of more comorbidities had an effect on all-cause mortality, but not prostate cancer-specific mortality, in a large cohort study of men with prostate cancer.

The first head-to-head comparison of docetaxel and abiraterone acetate for high-risk prostate cancer patients starting long-term hormone therapy found benefit with both treatments when added to ADT. Treatment decisions may come down to specific toxicities, which differ between the treatments.

An analysis that corrected for differences in implementation found that the two main trials of prostate cancer screening in Europe and the United States both show a reduction in prostate cancer mortality with screening.

Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer that has become resistant to docetaxel chemotherapy represents one of the greatest clinical challenges in the management of this disease.

Immediate treatment with androgen-deprivation therapy for men with asymptomatic non-curable prostate cancer did not have major effects on quality of life compared with delayed use, according to a phase III trial.

Two different doses of cabazitaxel failed to show superiority with regard to overall survival over docetaxel as first-line treatment for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who receive androgen deprivation therapy risk loss of bone mineral density and fractures, but both bisphosphonates and denosumab can improve their bone health.

In this interview we discuss the ASCO provisional clinical opinion on second-line hormonal therapy for chemotherapy-naive castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Taller men are at increased risk for high-grade prostate cancer and prostate cancer death, according to a large registry study. Greater adiposity is also associated with higher-grade tumors and mortality.

Long-term follow-up found no significant differences in all-cause or disease-related mortality in men with early prostate cancer randomized to either radical prostatectomy or to observation. Surgery led to more adverse events, but less treatment for disease progression.

In this article, we look at both metastatic hormone-sensitive and metastatic castration-resistant disease, and we highlight several of the emerging categories of advanced prostate cancer that have direct implications for patient management.