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Disparities in Prostate Cancer Management in the United States Presentation - Alicia Morgans

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At the 2019 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) Dr. Alicia Morgans presented on disparities in prostate cancer management in the United States. Dr. Morgans highlights the 174,650 new cases of prostate cancer in the United States in 2019 and noting that social health is determined by many factors which could be responsible for these disparities, she frames her discussion around wh...

Pharmaco-ethnicity and Its Impact on Treatment Presentation - Darren MC Poon

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At the 2019 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) Darren Poon gave an overview of prostate cancer in the East-Asian ethnicity. This ethnicity includes China, (including Hong-Kong and Macau), Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. When assessing the taxane related adverse events in Asian prostate cancer patients, compared to the rates described in the major studies,...

APCCC 2019 Global vs. Expert Consensus in the Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer Study - Charles Ryan

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Charles Ryan and Alicia Morgans encourage participation in a 6 minute (survey) study available on UroToday.com, titled the Global vs. Expert Consensus in the Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer Study , a questionnaire intended to determine the global consensus among all physicians treating patients with advanced prostate cancer. The aim is to further understand global patterns of care in advanc...

Clinical Utility of Molecular Biomarkers Presentation - Johann de Bono

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Professor de Bono presents the clinical utility of predictive molecular biomarkers in advanced prostate cancer during the first session of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC 2019). Biographies: Johann de Bono, MB ChB FRCP MSc Ph.D. FMedSci. Professor Johann de Bono is Regius Professor of Cancer Research and a Professor in Experimental Cancer Medicine at The Institute of Cance...

Baseline PSA Level in Midlife and Aggressive Prostate Cancer in African American Men - Mark Preston

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Alicia Morgans and Mark Preston share a discussion on his recent paper Baseline Prostate-specific Antigen Level in Midlife and Aggressive Prostate Cancer in Black Men published in European Urology which set to determine whether baseline PSA level during midlife predicts the risk of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men. They also discuss whether the baseline PSAs could correlate with...

Optimizing Care in Localized Prostate Cancer - Mary-Ellen Taplin and Adam Kibel

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Adam Kibel and Mary-Ellen Taplin join Alicia Morgans in a conversation about optimizing the care of men with localized prostate cancer, both systemic therapy, and surgical techniques and a combination of the two. They discuss the treatment landscape and their insights into what the field could consider for patients with localized disease. Biographies: Adam Kibel, MD, Chief, Division of Urology Ell...

Latin American Oncology Group (LACOG), a Cooperative Group Consensus - Fernando Maluf

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Charles Ryan is joined by Fernando Maluf, leader of genitourinary oncology in Brazil, who shares details on the upcoming Latin American Oncology Group (LACOG), a cooperative group consensus meeting. This cooperative group, developed a consensus to strive for answers on screening for late stage of prostate cancer, from the experts from all over the world particularly for developing countries in Afr...

Credentialing Imaging as an Outcome Measure in Prostate Cancer - Lawrence H. Schwartz and Michael J. Morris

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Michael Morris, MD, and Larry (Lawrence) Schwartz joins Charles Ryan, MD in a conversation about credentialing imaging as an outcome measure in prostate cancer and its impact in clinical trials. They focus on the following questions: How do we credential images? How do we perform them? And how do we interpret them? Their conversation also focuses on determining progression-free survival (PFS) from...

Radiation Therapy Options for Prostate Cancer - Paul Nguyen

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Paul Nguyen and Alicia Morgans discuss a number of hot topics in radiation oncology for prostate cancer, highlighting topics of radiating the primary in low-volume metastatic hormone-sensitive disease and the benefit in terms of disease control and prostate cancer-specific outcomes. Paul overviews the METACURE trial (NCT03436654) looking at either a high-risk or the oligometastatic population, and...

Ben Maughan Highlights Key Practice Changing Prostate Cancer Data

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Benjamin Maughan shares his perspectives on clinical practice-changing data for prostate cancer in this conversation with Petros Grivas. The conversation includes discussions of the data from the ARCHES and TITAN trials for treatment on nonmetastatic prostate cancer and how the combination hormone therapies may impact treatment decisions. New data was also discussed from ENZAMET where the addition...