Prostate Cancer

Jorge A. Garcia, MD, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, discusses some of the challenges with immunotherapy in prostate cancer.

The FDA has updated the label for abiraterone acetate plus prednisone to include significant overall survival data from the final analysis of the phase III COU-AA-302 study.

A new phase begins for Thomas Neville, PhD, a Yale and Stanford-trained engineer and economist who worked in energy before a prostate cancer diagnosis drew him into medical research.

Two studies investigating enzalutamide in men with early stage metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer further confirmed the overall survival and progression-free survival benefit of the agent over placebo.

Alec Koo, MD, FACS, managing partner, Skyline Urology, board of directors, LUGPA, discusses results from a recent study on active surveillance in prostate cancer.

In an interview with OncLive, Leonard G. Gomella discusses the benefits, limitations, and considerations of sipuleucel-T for patients with prostate cancer.

Mitchell Benson, MD, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor at Columbia University Medical Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, discusses potential issues with active surveillance for patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, FACP, FASCO, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, discusses sequencing therapies in prostate cancer.

Celestia S. Higano, MD, FACP, professor of medicine and urology, University of Washington, discusses radium-223 chloride and its efficacy for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).

A United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendation against the use of prostate specific antigen testing needs to be updated, said Gary Kirsh, MD, president of the Large Urology Group Practice Association.

Leonard G. Gomella, MD, told attendees at the 8th Annual IPCC that the decision to screen or not to screen for prostate cancer boiled down to "using common sense, shared decision making, and choosing the right patients to screen."

Physicians should engage in careful patient selection before recommending active surveillance for prostate cancer, according to Mitchell C. Benson, MD.

In a similar fashion as astronauts, physicians can mitigate risks and improve outcomes with advanced planning and teamwork, four-time space shuttle commander Tom Henricks said during his keynote address at the Interdisciplinary Prostate Cancer Congress.