This year in the UK, more than 40,000 men will find out they have prostate cancer, and the disease will claim the lives of more than 10,000. Prostate cancer is usually treated with radiation or an operation that removes the prostate gland, followed by drugs that suppress the hormone testosterone, which can stimulate the growth…
Metastasis—also referred to as “metastatic cancer”—is the medical term for cancer that has spread to a part of the body outside its origin. With regards to prostate cancer, the terms “metastatic prostate cancer”, “advanced prostate cancer”, and “stage 4 prostate cancer” generally refer to cancer that has spread beyond the lymph nodes and tissues immediately surrounding the prostate. How…
European Urology has published a paper, “Rationale for Modernizing Imaging in Advanced Prostate Cancer”. To effectively manage patients with advanced prostate cancer (APC), it is essential to have accurate, reproducible, and validated methods for detecting and quantifying the burden of bone and soft tissue metastases and for assessing their response to therapy. Current standard of…
For the first time, a study has provided evidence of meaningful clinical activity for programmed death 1 (PD-1) blockade in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), according to a new report. In an ongoing phase II study, a team led by Julie N. Graff, MD, of the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Knight…