Around the Practice: February 17, 2021

"It gives me a very rewarding experience…. I see patients with low-grade prostate cancer and when they become advanced prostate cancer, I already have a good relationship with them and don’t have to send them somewhere else," says Abhinav Sidana, MD, MPH.

Amar Kishan, MD, highlights findings showing that MRI-guided SBRT is superior to CT-guided SBRT in localized prostate cancer.

"The emulation framework lends the design and conduct of observational analyses some of the rigor required for the planning of a randomized trial. In doing so, it provides an innovative and principled approach to improve the evidence base on the comparative effectiveness of interventions," writes Boris Gershman, MD, and Aaron Fleishman, MPH.

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

Men of African ancestry were less likely to be treated on clinical trials after undergoing comprehensive genomic profiling compared with men of European ancestry.

Increasing numbers of older patients with cancer necessitates adoption of an age-friendly approach to cancer care.