A Medical Oncologist Reflects on a Typical Prostate Cancer Patient

“Vanderbilt researchers are participating in numerous projects related to PRS and disease risk; studies such as this highlight the importance of evaluating whether novel clinical tools actually enhance care,” said Kerry Schaffer, MD.

“Localized prostate cancer is a very complicated disease space,” says Aaron A. Laviana, MD, MBA.

Findings suggest many patients with localized disease can delay surgery or radiation without increasing their mortality risk.

“The current landscape of online materials about prostate cancer is generally pretty bleak,” says Stacy Loeb, MD, PhD, MSc.

“What is precision medicine? This is not just a vague term; it really looks at individual characteristics of a patient to decide treatment," said Leonard G. Gomella, MD, FACS.

"The government is spending more in Medicare, we are getting more people with prostate cancer, more deaths with prostate cancer, [and] more metastasis with prostate cancer. While it is so simple: today, PSA is still there," says Navin Shah, MD, MS, FACS, FICS, FACIP.