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- Eugene Cone, MD, a urologic oncology fellow at Harvard Medical School, joins Tom Keane, MBBCh, FRCSI, FACS, to discuss the increased risk of cardiac events associated with androgen deprivation therapy, the standard of care for prostate cancer treatment, and the differences in cardiac risk between gonadotropin-releasing antagonists versus agonists. Dr. Cone’s research compared traditional gonadotro...
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- Tom Keane discusses a recent publication in European Urology "The Oral Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone Receptor Antagonist Relugolix as Neoadjuvant or Adjuvant Androgen Deprivation Therapy to External Beam Radiotherapy in Patients with Localized Intermediate-risk Prostate Cancer." Dr. Keane explains that this Phase 2, open-label study demonstrated that oral once-daily relugolix, while not yet FDA a...
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- In this Journal Club, Zachary Klaassen and Christopher Wallis review the recently published New England Journal of Medicine article Enzalutamide and Survival in Nonmetastatic, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer, the double-blind, phase 3 PROSPER trial. Men with nonmetastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (defined on the basis of conventional imaging and a PSA doubling time of ≤10 months)...
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- Christopher Wallis and Zachary Klaassen host this journal club on "Oral Relugolix for Androgen-Deprivation Therapy in Advanced Prostate Cancer," published by the HERO trial investigators in the New England Journal of Medicine simultaneously with the first presentation of the trial results at the ASCO 2020 annual meeting. Sharing background information on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), as well...
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- Relugolix is the first oral GnRH receptor antagonist, which was previously shown to rapidly suppress testosterone levels. Neal Shore joins Alicia Morgans to discuss the results of the HERO phase 3 trial comparing the safety and efficacy of relugolix with leuprolide acetate in advanced prostate cancer patients. Relugolix is an oral, once a day medication, and the trial had a primary endpoint of non...
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- Mary-Ellen Taplin, Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School and a GU Medical Oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, joins Alicia Morgans to discuss the ProGen study. A randomized controlled trial that aims to evaluate the impact of pre-test video education and post-test genetic counseling as compared to in-person pre-test genetic counseling in males with advanced prostate cancer. This...
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- Recorded Date: April 24, 2020 Christopher Wallis and Zachary Klaassen join Alicia Morgans to discuss the management guidance released by European Urology on how to best optimize the care of prostate cancer patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this Journal Club, Dr. Klaassen and Dr. Wallis assess the impact of delaying treatment in patients with prostate cancer and discuss the potential conseq...
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- Hala Borno joins Alicia Morgans and discusses a recent viewpoint article in JAMA Oncology titled “The Ethics of Delivering Precision Medicine—Pretest Counseling and Somatic Genomic Testing.” In the new era of precision medicine in cancer treatment, many clinicians use patient tumor genomic (somatic) data as part of routine clinical practice. Dr. Borno shares insights into Pretest Counseling in an...
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- Stephen Freedland joins Alicia Morgans to discuss the Carbohydrate and Prostate Study 2 (CAPS2), a randomized controlled trial of a 6-month low carbohydrate intervention on disease progression in men with recurrent prostate cancer. This study is part of a series of studies looking at the role of low carbohydrate diets in prostate cancer. The study involved taking men with rising PSA after failed s...
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- Ana Aparicio joins Alicia Morgans at ASCO GU 2020 to discuss her work with AR indifferent tumors in the field of prostate cancer. Among the topics discussed, Dr. Aparicio stressed the importance of understanding clinical features and the development of a profile of this AR indifferent subtype in order to allow for easier identification. The two further discuss the research and ongoing clinical tri...
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