Prostate Cancer

Two experts in the management of prostate cancer provide key insight into the value of blood and urine liquid biopsy tests when deciding whether to perform a prostate tissue biopsy.

Thought leaders in the management of prostate cancer build a discussion on the challenges associated with the use of MRI to diagnose prostate cancer including insurance coverage and patient discomfort.

Experts urologists, David Albala, MD and Judd W. Moul, MD, compare the utility of a variety of blood and urine tests for screening and diagnosing prostate cancer.

Key opinion leaders in urology provide an overview of the prevalence of prostate cancer and discuss the importance of screening and risk assessment tools like the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test.

Agarwal also discusses the ongoing phase 3 randomized CONTACT-02 study.

PARP inhibitors are recent additions to the prostate cancer armamentarium and adverse event management is critical to their optimal integration into clinical practice.

In Urology Times’ monthly installment of Around the Practice, experts discuss adverse event management from various treatments for prostate and bladder cancer.

The updated data included 132 patients, all of whom had prior enzalutamide and/or abiraterone acetate.

"Either way the service is reported, the payer should require documentation be submitted for review prior to payment, and the use of the –52 on the 38571 will provide more appropriate guidance for reimbursement processing," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter.

Looking back at the November 2020 installment of Urology Times’ Around the Practice, a virtual, monthly live case event focused on genitourinary cancers, Raoul S. Concepcion, MD, FACS, offers an update on clinical implications from two prostate cancer cases.

The PARP inhibitors olaparib and rucaparib are approved by the FDA for prostate cancer and other PARP agents are moving through the pipeline.

The targeted focal laser ablation system is intended to be an office-based treatment for localized prostate cancer delivered under local anesthesia.

Among the findings, the researchers identified a potential biomarker of ancestry-dependent treatment outcomes with hormone therapy.

“In this study, we show that AI can be used to speed up the time-consuming step of outlining the prostate that's required for targeted prostate biopsy,” says Geoffrey Sonn, MD.

Ultra-high single-dose radiotherapy demonstrated comparable efficacy and safety as curative hypofractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy.

The risk assessment tool helps determine whether a prostate biopsy is necessary when PSA screening is ambiguous.

This article reviews new imaging technologies that may improve early detection of biochemical recurrence after definitive treatment for prostate cancer. This article also features insights from oncology experts Raoul Concepcion, MD; Judd Moul, MD; Brian Helfand, MD; Munir Ghesani, MD.

The final results of the pivotal TITAN trial “support the early addition of apalutamide to ADT for optimal therapeutic outcomes in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer,” the authors wrote.

Kretschmer highlights how ongoing research is aiming to optimize use of this noninvasive, urine-based genomic test.

"Three decades into prostate-specific antigen screening–detected prostate cancer, the prognostic and therapeutic impacts of various types of pelvic lymph node dissection remain unclear," writes Badar M. Mian, MD.

The ExoDx Prostate test helps physicians determine whether a prostate biopsy is necessary when PSA screening is ambiguous.

EPI-7386 previously received an FDA Fast Track Designation for patients with mCRPC resistant to standard-of-care treatments.

Role was highlighted in analysis of phase 3 PROSPER trial of enzalutamide in patients with nonmetastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Stereotactic body radiotherapy was not associated with any dose-limiting toxicities.

Both forms of therapy are considered standard of care in prostate cancer; however, some data suggest that proton therapy may offer a safer alternative without sacrificing efficacy.