Expert Forum on Prostate Cancer Survivorship: Major Challenges

"Our clinical trial is the first to show a longer time to biochemical recurrence with chemotherapy plus standard hormone therapy for patients with locally advanced, high-risk prostate cancer," says Jiahua Pan, MD.

In this podcast episode, Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI, discusses the need to increase diversity in clinical trials, specifically focusing on studies in prostate cancer.

Data showed an increase in participant knowledge in 5 of the 10 items on the Prostate Cancer Knowledge Scale and a decrease in all 10 items on the Decisional Conflict Scale after watching the video.

Zeyad Schwen, MD, a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, discusses how patient factors and cancer characteristics are key to deciding between focal therapies and whole gland treatment for prostate cancer.

The authors also project an 85% increase in the number of deaths from prostate cancer per year, which would bring the total number from 375,000 in 2020 to nearly 700,000 by 2040.

"I predict the future treatment for men with truly high-risk prostate cancer will see a fusion of what was thought to be standard local treatments combined with multimodality therapies that were initially impactful only in the more advanced disease state," writes Michael S. Cookson, MD, MMHC, FACS.