Prostate Cancer

While the United States Preventative Services Task Force has taken a stand against routine prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer, updated findings from the landmark Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovary screening trial could flip opinions.

The phase III ARMOR 3-SV trial for prostate cancer was not likely to meet its primary endpoint of radiographic progression-free survival (PFS) improvement, the trial’s independent data monitoring committee (DMC) decided, leading to the trial’s discontinuation, according to the manufacturer Tokai Pharmaceuticals.

A study of apalutamide (ARN-509) in patients with high-risk, localized, or locally advanced prostate cancer who are receiving primary radiation therapy is hoping to reduce the risk of metastasis and death from prostate cancer for these high-risk patients, according to the study’s global principal investigator, Howard M. Sandler, MD.

There have been limited successes made in immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer so far, but progress is being made, explains Akash Patnaik, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine.

Radium-223 dichloride has proved to be a game-changer in the radiopharmaceutical scene, specifically with the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Metastatic Prostate Cancer with Charles Ryan, MD and William K. Oh, MD

Fred Schumacher, PhD, MPH, associate professor, Case Western Reserve University, discusses a study that highlights the optimal use of the identification of genetic risk factors in prostate cancer, as well as the biology of developing prostate cancer.

Targeting the androgen receptor pathway in patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer is a key component of treatment.

Bone metastases in castration-resistant prostate cancer create a significant problem. Prostate cancer represents 21% of all new cancer cases in men and is the second most common cause of cancer death among American men after lung cancer.

Metastatic Prostate Cancer with Charles Ryan, MD and William K. Oh, MD