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Precision Oncology Program for Cancer of the Prostate (POPCaP) - Matthew Rettig

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Matt Rettig discusses POPCaP and his work involving the health of veterans with prostate cancer and ongoing clinical trials going on exclusively within the Veterans Health Administration (VA) system. The Precision Oncology Program for Cancer of the Prostate (POPCaP), a partnership between the VA and the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) to create a system of excellence for prostate cancer in VA is...

The Impact of Vitamin D and Statins on Prostate Cancer Outcomes - Lorelei Mucci and Elizabeth Platz

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Lorelei Mucci and Elizabeth Platz join Charles Ryan in a discussion on the impact of vitamin D and statins on prostate cancer outcomes. There is no direct evidence linking vitamin D and the risk of prostate cancer, however, vitamin D is believed to be important for overall good health. There is an inverse relationship between cholesterol and risk for the development of prostate cancer and statin u...

Prostate Cancer Foundation's Women in Science Forum Discussion - Himisha Beltran, Lorelei Mucci, Karen Knudsen, and Amina Zoubeidi

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At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat 2019 (PCF 2019), Alicia Morgans is joined by the four women leaders and organizers of the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Women in Science Forum 2019. Himisha Beltran, Lorelei Mucci, Karen Knudsen, and Amina Zoubeidi each share their insights and motivations for leading the forum. Each of these professionals is moving the field forward...

Prostate 8 Program - Lifestyle, Exercise, and Nutrition - Stacey Kenfield

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At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat 2019 (PCF 2019), Stacey Kenfield joins Charles Ryan to speak about her work on lifestyle, exercise, nutrition and its impact on prostate cancer. She talks about the Prostate 8 program which resulted from looking at men with prostate cancer and studying different dietary and lifestyle factors that might be associated with prostate can...

The Biology of Prostate Cancer - Kenneth Pienta

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Kenneth Pienta joins Charles Ryan at the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat 2019 (PCF 2019) to discuss the biology of prostate cancer, and to share a clinician's perspective of thinking about the biology of this disease. This is a look at the current year and some of the significant findings that have changed the way we look at treating prostate cancer. The STAMPEDE data sho...

Integrating PARP inhibitors into the Standard of Care for Prostate Cancer - Joaquin Mateo

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At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat (PCF 2019), Joaquin Mateo, Principal Investigator, and Translational Scientist at the Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona joined Charles Ryan to discuss how PARP inhibitors are being integrated into the standard of care for prostate cancer, pivotal studies that are reporting and ongoing with PARP inhibitors, and important aspect of t...

Antibody-drug Conjugates for Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma & 177Lu-PSMA-617 for Progressive mCRPC - Scott Tagawa

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Scott Tagawa joins Alicia Morgans at the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat (PCF 2019) and discusses advances in bladder and prostate cancer. He highlights his recent work on antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) specifically, sacituzumab govitecan in metastatic urothelial cancer and the and the initial results from TROPHY-U-01. Although immune checkpoint inhibitors now provide an...

"Eat, Move, Sleep" - June Chan

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At the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat 2019 (PCF 2019), Professor June Chan joins Charles Ryan to discuss her study "Eat, Move, Sleep," a digital cohort study that is focused on cancer survivorship aiming to collect data on diet, exercise, sleep, and other lifestyle practices in people with prostate, colorectal, and/or bladder cancer. This study is set to open in early 20...

Clinical Implications of the CARD Trial - Cora Sternberg

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In this conversation, Alicia Morgans and Cora Sternberg, Medical Oncologist and Clinical Director of the Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine in New York discuss the recently presented results from the CARD trial. The CARD Trial a phase 4 clinical trial compared cabazitaxel vs abiraterone or enzalutamide in patients who were previously treated with docetaxel and had p...

Implementing Genetic Testing Into Clinical Practice - Mary-Ellen Taplin

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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 at the 26th Annual Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat (PCF 2019) to speak about germline testing. They discuss what is required in implementing genetic testing into clinical practice and ways of disseminating the data to perform germline t...