Prostate Cancer

Howard Sandler, MD, MS, FASTRO, chair, Radiation Oncology, Ronald H. Bloom Family Chair in Cancer Therapeutics, discusses results from a phase III study on docetaxel with hormonal and radiation therapy in prostate cancer.

Treatment with an adjuvant combination of docetaxel, androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), and radiation therapy (RT) improved 4-year overall survival rates in patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer, when compared with ADT plus RT alone.

A. Karim Kader, MD, PhD, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Urology, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, discusses how prostate genetic score (PGS) stratifies baseline risk of prostate cancer and improves prostate-specific antigen (PSA) performance in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening trial.

Mathew Hall, MD, radiation oncologist, City of Hope National Medical Center, discusses the impact of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening recommendations.

Prior treatment with abiraterone acetate or enzalutamide did not alter the survival benefit seen with radium-223 in men with advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Neal D. Shore, MD, FACS, medical director, Carolina Urologic Research Center, managing partner, Atlantic Urology Clinics, discusses the results of the TERRAIN trial.

Prostate cancer patients with different baseline cardiovascular risk had similar reductions in cardiovascular event rates when treated with the LHRH antagonist degarelix versus an LHRH agonist.

Matthew Cooperberg, MD, genitourinary cancer specialist, University of California San Francisco, discusses the efficacy of using an antagonist with hormone therapy in prostate cancer.

The combination of multiparametric MRI with a fusion-guided biopsy (MRI plus ultrasound) was more effective at detecting aggressive prostate cancer compared with either procedure alone.