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IMPLEMENT Study: Addressing the Underutilization of Treatment Intensification in Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer - Stacy Loeb

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Zach Klaassen and Stacy Loeb discuss the IMPLEMENT Study, which investigates the underutilization of treatment intensification in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Despite guidelines recommending this approach, it is used in less than a third of cases. Phase one of the study identified barriers like limited knowledge of clinical trials and concerns about using up treatment options earl...

NCCN 2024 Prostate Cancer Guidelines Update: Relugolix Gains Prominence in Treating Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer - Rashid Sayyid & Zachary Klaassen

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Rashid Sayyid and Zach Klaassen explore the significant updates to the 2024 NCCN guidelines for prostate cancer, focusing on the integration of relugolix for metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer (M1-CSPC). Dr. Sayyid highlights the HERO trial, which established relugolix as an effective oral GnRH antagonist with rapid and sustained testosterone suppression, outperforming leuprolide in b...

OASIS Project Highlights the Survival Benefits of Rapid PSA Decline with Apalutamide in Prostate Cancer - Benjamin Maughan

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Zach Klaassen and Benjamin Maughan discuss new insights into the real-world application of apalutamide in treating metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). Dr. Maughan highlights the significance of achieving deep PSA responses as a key prognostic marker for patient outcomes. The OASIS project, utilizing data from diverse medical settings across the U.S., demonstrates that patients wh...

Escalation Strategies for Suboptimal PSA Decline in mHSPC - Mary-Ellen Taplin

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Alicia Morgans speaks with Mary-Ellen Taplin about strategies for managing metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) patients who do not achieve optimal PSA declines. Dr. Taplin emphasizes that an unfavorable PSA decline is not synonymous with progression and highlights the prognostic value of achieving a PSA nadir below 0.2. She discusses data from various trials, such as SWOG 9346, CH...

Radiating the Primary Tumor in Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer - Sandy Srinivas

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Alicia Morgans interviews Sandy Srinivas about her presentation on treating the primary tumor in synchronous high-volume metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Dr. Srinivas reviews key trials such as HORRAD and STAMPEDE, which indicate that radiating the primary tumor may benefit low-volume patients but not those with high-volume disease. She highlights the PEACE-1 trial, which found no sur...

Prognostic and Predictive Factors in Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer - Matthew Smith

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Alicia Morgans speaks with Matthew Smith about prognostic and predictive factors in treating metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). Dr. Smith explains the importance of clinical, imaging, and molecular factors in patient selection for treatment intensification. He highlights that factors like disease volume, manner of presentation, and specific genomic alterations (e.g., PTEN, P53)...

Sequencing Therapies in mCRPC After Progression on Combination Treatment - Ian Davis

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Alicia Morgans interviews Ian Davis to discuss the challenges of sequencing treatments for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) that have progressed to metastatic castrate-resistant disease (mCRPC). Dr. Davis emphasizes that there is no ideal sequence of treatments but identifies several less-than-ideal approaches. He highlights the importance of achieving maximum ben...

Managing Frail Patients with Metastatic Hormone-Sensitive Prostate Cancer - Maria De Santis

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Maria De Santis discusses managing frail patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Dr. De Santis explains the importance of defining frailty, which involves five key factors: unintended weight loss, weakness, low physical activity, difficulty lifting objects, and mobility issues. She highlights the necessity of evaluating frailty using tools like the G8 screening and emphasizes t...

Optimal Imaging Standards for Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer - Michael Morris

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Michael Morris discusses optimal imaging standards for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. He explains that conventional imaging methods like PSA tracking are insufficient for monitoring disease progression in the era of advanced androgen receptor signaling inhibitors (ARSIs). Dr. Morris emphasizes the need for regular imaging, recommending scans every six to twelve months to detect radi...

The EvoPAR-Prostate 01 Trial: Novel PARP Inhibitor Saruparib in mHSPC - Neeraj Agarwal

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Zach Klaassen discusses the EvoPAR-Prostate 01 trial with Neeraj Agarwal. The trial examines a new PARP inhibitor combined with ARPI in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, both in biomarker-positive and -negative populations. Dr. Agarwal explains the rationale based on preclinical data and previous trials like PROpel and TALAPRO-2, showing efficacy in HRR mutation-positive patients and p...