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Dr. Tagawa on 2 radiopharmaceuticals for prostate cancer with a proven survival advantage

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Urology Times staff

In this video, Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, FACP, discusses the alpha emitter radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) and the PSMA targeted therapy lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan (Pluvicto), 2 FDA-approved radiopharmaceutical therapies that have proven survival advantages for patients with prostate cancer. Tagawa is an associate professor of clinical medicine and clinical urology and medical director of the Genitourinary Oncology Research Program at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. He is also an assistant attending physician on the Cornell campus at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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