Prostate Cancer

Zachery Roger Reichert, MD, PhD, discusses the effects novel agents and pathways have had on the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

The FDA has accepted and granted priority review to a supplemental new drug application seeking the approval of enzalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer with high-risk biochemical recurrence.

Joshi Alumkal, MD, discusses the use of triplet therapy in prostate cancer.

Expert panelists briefly reflect on clinical trial data with CDK4/6 inhibitors in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and how their role in this setting might evolve.

The combination of cabozantinib and atezolizumab led to a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival compared with a second novel hormonal therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and measurable soft tissue disease following 1 prior novel hormonal therapy, meeting one of the primary end points in the primary analysis of the phase 3 CONTACT-02 trial.

Praful K. Ravi, MB, BChir, MRCP, discusses the use of prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeted therapies in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, highlighting the use of the targeted radioligand lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan.

Zachery Roger Reichert, MD, PhD, discusses novel agents and pathways under exploration in prostate cancer.

Use of Copper 64 PSMA I&T for PET/CT imaging met the threshold for significance regarding region-level correct localization rate and patient-level correct detection rate in patients with histologically confirmed metastatic prostate cancer, meeting the coprimary end points of the phase 2 SOLAR trial.

Key opinion leaders share insight to novel combination strategies and clinical trials focused on radioligand therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Continuing their segment on radioligand therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, panelists highlight data behind use of radium-223.

Joshi Alumkal, MD, discusses the effects of the phase 3 ARESENS trial on the treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

The FDA has approved niraparib plus abiraterone acetate, given with prednisone, for the treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA-positive, metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

The FDA has approved a study may proceed letter in advance of its 30-day review period to Oncternal Therapeutics for its phase 1/2 study evaluating ONCT-534, a novel dual-action AR inhibitor in patients with mCRPC who have relapsed or are refractory to approved AR signaling inhibitors.

The development of etrumadenant as a potential treatment option for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer will be discontinued after data from the phase 1/2 ARC-6 trial did not demonstrate a sufficient clinical benefit for etrumadenant plus zimberelimab and docetaxel compared with docetaxel alone.

Ulka Nitin Vaishampayan, MBBS, discusses patient factors to consider when choosing between apalutamide, enzalutamide, and darolutamide for the treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.

Focused discussion on the role of lutetium-177–PSMA-617 as radioligand therapy in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Key opinion leaders in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer management review a subset of clinical trials focused on combination strategies with PARP inhibitors.

Paul Sieber, MD, discusses the importance of evaluating comorbidities in patients with prostate cancer, including assessing risk factors for cardiovascular events in those who are initiating androgen deprivation therapy.

Moving on to discuss metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, panelists highlight the evolving role of PARP inhibition in this setting.

Comprehensive insight to key treatment modalities for patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and how to select amongst them.

David R. Wise, MD, PhD, discusses key trials establishing the benefit of hormone therapy– or chemotherapy-based doublet therapy for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer

Benjamin Miron, MD, explains the purpose of studying the molecular profile of intraductal carcinoma of the prostate, expands on the potential prognostic and targetable alterations identified in patients with this histology, and discusses the planned cohort expansion and analysis of RNA signatures in this population.

The European Commission has approved piflufolastat (18F) for the detection of prostate-specific membrane antigen–positive lesions with positron emission tomography in adults with prostate cancer.

Neeraj Agarwal, MD, discusses future questions to be addressed following the phase 3 TALAPRO-2 trial evaluating the combination of talazoparib plus enzalutamide in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Varied levels of compliance were observed in terms of using validated quality indicators to determine the quality of active surveillance for patients with low-risk prostate cancer, according to findings from a population-based study published in the Journal of the Comprehensive Cancer Network.