“We found that treatment-related out-of-pocket costs were 18 times higher for those patients treated with novel hormonal therapies compared to those who were just on standard ADT,” says Daniel D. Joyce, MD.
In this video, Daniel D. Joyce, MD, discusses the background and key findings from the recent Journal of Urology study, “Out-of-Pocket Cost Burden Associated With Contemporary Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer Among Commercially Insured Patients,” for which he served as a study author. Joyce is a urologic oncology fellow at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
The management of high-risk localized prostate cancer: Back to the future
April 5th 2024"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.