Advanced Prostate Cancer VL

New Concepts in ADT- Thomas Keane

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(Length of Discussion: 21 min) Tom Keane brings new concepts in androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to light specifically discussing agonists versus antagonists, new androgen receptor-targeted drugs, including immunotherapy biomarkers, and genomic testing. He reviews the current state of the CRPC treatment and ADT options for use in advanced metastatic disease and concludes with a discussion on tre...

Quality of Life During Treatment with Chemohormonal Therapy - Alicia Morgans

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Alicia Morgans, MD and Charles Ryan, MD discuss the quality of life between patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer who were treated with ADT+docetaxel and those who were treated with ADT alone. The importance of the study was to understand how different treatments actually affected the individuals receiving them. Biographies: Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH Charles J. Ryan, MD Read Mor...

Neoadjuvant Therapy for Men with High Risk Disease Prior to Prostatectomy - Mary-Ellen Taplin

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(Length of Conversation: 19 min) Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD, and Alicia Morgans, MD discuss the topic of neoadjuvant therapy for men with high-risk disease prior to surgery, specifically, prior to prostatectomy. Among the topics discussed include the importance of studying neoadjuvant chemotherapy and hormonal therapies in clinical trials before being used more broadly in everyday clinical practice, pa...