A Medical Oncologist’s Perspective on Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in 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.

Judd W. Moul, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork® about the latest research from the journal ONCOLOGY® on the treatment of a patients with evidence of prostate cancer despite multiple negative prognostic tests.

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.

Muhammad Rafay Khan Niazi, MD, and Alexander Bershadskiy, MD, spoke with CancerNetwork® about the latest research from the journal ONCOLOGY® on the use of PARP inhibitors as maintenance therapy for certain patients with metastatic castration-resistant 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.

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.