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Disparities and Outcomes in Men with Prostate Cancer - Susan Halabi, Mindy Hebert-DeRouen, and Daniel George

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At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat (PCF 2019), Charles Ryan is joined by three physicians to discuss disparities and outcomes in men with prostate cancer. Drs. Susan Halabi, Mindy DeRouen, and Dan George shared highlights from their presentations from the PCF Scientific Retreat. Dr. Hebert-DeRouen shares details on the Disparities Research: Environment and multi oMics...

The IRONMAN - An International Registry for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer - Dana Rathkopf

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At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat (PCF 2019) Dana Rathkopf and Alicia Morgans discuss the IRONMAN registry. Dana, a strong contributor to the IRONMAN registry trial, explains the goals of the registry and why it is so important for the personalization of patient care around the world. The IRONMAN registry is a population-based observational study currently in nine co...

Advancing Prostate Cancer Research - The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC) - Sarah Wise

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Sarah Wise, the Director of Research Operations at the Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC) sits down with Alicia Morgans to talk about the PCCTC, what the goals of the organization are, the benefit of the organization to patients, and how physicians, clinicians, and researchers can support what they are trying to do. The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium (PCCTC) was initiat...

Definitions and Concepts of Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer - Interview with Robert Reiter

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Robert Reiter and Phillip Koo discuss his lecture on oligometastatic disease at the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC 2019). Dr. Reiter highlights next-generation imaging and its impact on managing patients with oligometastatic disease. Biographies: Robert E. Reiter, MD, MBA, the Bing Professor of Urologic Oncology and Director of UCLA's prostate cancer program, Director of Urol...

Managing the Complications of Androgen Deprivation Therapy - Mark Frydenberg

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A more common but often less talked about negative side effect of androgen deprivation therapy is the presence of hot flushes in men. In this discussion with Carmel Pezaro, Mark Frydenberg highlights solutions to this issue ranging from simple everyday adaptations to investigating alternative complementary therapies and drugs. Biographies: Mark Frydenberg, MD, Vice President, President-elect, Urol...

Imaging Modalities to Treat Node-Positive Disease - Interview with Declan Murphy

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Declan Murphy sits down with Alicia Morgans during the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC 2019) to discuss men who have node positive but nonmetastatic prostate cancer and how we think about approaching treatment and integrating new imaging modalities into that entire therapeutic paradigm. Two aspects of managing node positive men in regards to surgery were talked about including...

How to Treat Men with pN1 Prostate Cancer - Presentation - Alberto Bossi

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Alberto Bossi presented on the recommended treatment for men with pathological node-positive prostate cancer. These patients are becoming more common as surgery is being performed on a higher proportion of high-risk patients with positive nodes. Highlighting unanswered questions regarding the treatment of these patients following surgery, Dr. Alberto Bossi mentions several studies that have assess...

Disadvantages of PSMA PET/CT in Advanced Prostate Cancer Imaging Presentation - Ian Davis

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As a follow-up to Dr. Stefano Fanti’s presentation on the advantages of PSMA PET-CT imaging, Dr. Ian Davis from Melbourne discussed some of the pitfalls and disadvantages of PSMA PET-CT in advanced prostate cancer imaging. Biography: Professor Ian Davis, MB, BS, Ph.D., FRAC,P FAChPM, is a medical oncologist, cancer immunologist, clinician-scientist, and NHMRC Practitioner Fellow. He is Professor o...

Radiation Therapy Options for Men with Clinically Node-Positive Prostate Cancer - Mack Roach

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In this conversation with Charles Ryan, MD, Mack Roach III, MD discusses radiotherapy options for patients with clinically node-positive prostate cancer. In particularly with oligometastatic disease we are seeing long-term follow-up from a number of trials and have begun integrating data from these trials into clinical practice. Biographies: Mack Roach III, MD, Professor of Radiation Oncology and...

The Future of Biomarkers in Advanced Prostate Cancer - Mark Rubin

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In this conversation with Charles Ryan, Mark Rubin highlights the key points he addresses in his 2019 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference presentation where he speaks about the future of biomarkers in advanced prostate cancer. Biographies: Mark A. Rubin, MD, Professor, Principal Investigator, and Director Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Rub...