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- Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, and Michael Cookson, MD, MMHC, FACS, discuss age subgroups in the HERO trial, evaluating differences in castration rates between patients of different ages from the HERO Study. The HERO trial evaluated relugolix compared to standard androgen deprivation therapy with leuprolide. Dr. Cookson discusses how they performed the analysis. The evaluation demonstrated that younger...
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- Tom Keane, MBBCh, FRCSI, FACS, recaps the HERO Phase III Trial comparing the safety and efficacy of relugolix with leuprolide acetate in advanced prostate cancer patients. In this trial, men with advanced prostate cancer who received relugolix achieved rapid, sustained suppression of testosterone levels that were superior to that with leuprolide, with a 54% lower risk of major adverse cardiovascul...
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- In this UroToday discussion Charles Ryan and Brandon Mahal, discuss Dr Mahal’s recent update to his study that was published in last year’s New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Mahal begins this conversation by discussing the background of his recent study, discussing the differences in mutational landscape, of advanced prostate cancer patients, between men with European and African ancestry. Dr....
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- Alicia Morgans engages with Michael Morris to delve into the rapidly evolving landscape of radiopharmaceuticals in prostate cancer treatment, highlighting the significance of the VISION data and existing therapies like radium-223. Dr. Morris outlines that the abundance of radiopharmaceutical tools is a "good problem to have," emphasizing that these agents are not one-size-fits-all but have unique...
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- In an educational session at the 2021 ASCO annual meeting titled Beyond the Androgen Receptor: New Avengers in the Treatment of Castrate-Resistant Metastatic Cancer, Mark Fleming, MD presented on treatment sequencing in castrate-resistant metastatic cancer (CRPC). In this conversation with Charles Ryan, MD, he speaks to the complex therapeutic landscape and offers guidance in managing treatment se...
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- Neeraj Agarwal, MD joins Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, sharing his clinical perspective on using relugolix in patients with advanced prostate cancer, and how this new oral treatment option fits into the prostate cancer treatment algorithm. The phase 3 HERO trial looked at patients with advanced prostate cancer, locally advanced prostate cancer, as well as metastatic prostate cancer, and patients were ra...
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- Joining Thomas Keane, MBBCh, FRCSI, FACS, diving into the data reported in the Phase III HERO trial is Bertrand Tombal, MD, PhD. In this conversation, Dr. Tombal drives awareness in the urology community on the use of oral relugolix and the benefits to patients. He discusses the clinical implications of the trial data, intermittent androgen deprivation therapy, the relevance of testosterone surge,...
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- Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality in patients with prostate cancer, and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) may worsen cardiovascular risk. Adherence to guideline-recommended assessment and management of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) in patients initiating ADT is not understood. A recently published study that describes CVRF assessment and management in Veterans with pros...
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- Christopher Wallis and Zachary Klaassen provide insights into the European Urology publication titled " Curative-intent Metastasis-directed Therapies for Molecularly-defined Oligorecurrent Prostate Cancer: A Prospective Phase II Trial Testing the Oligometastasis Hypothesis " in this UroToday Journal Club. The question that the authors sought to assess is if data could be derived assessing whether...
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- Praful Ravi, MB, BChir, MRCP, and Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH highlight several prostate cancer abstracts from GU ASCO 2021 and discuss the clinical landscape for treating prostate cancer. They highlight results of the ACIS trial assessing the combination of apalutamide + abiraterone acetate as compared to abiraterone acetate alone in patients with chemo-naive metastatic castration-resistant prostate...
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