Loading…

Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Advanced prostate cancer is a heterogenous disease with multiple treatment options. Patients with advanced disease are stratified based evidence of metastasis and sensitivity to hormone therapy. Men with hormone sensitive disease are treated with androgen deprivation therapy and possibly chemotherap...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Missouri medicine 2018-03, Vol.115 (2), p.156-161
Main Authors: Thomas, Theodore S, Pachynski, Russell K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Advanced prostate cancer is a heterogenous disease with multiple treatment options. Patients with advanced disease are stratified based evidence of metastasis and sensitivity to hormone therapy. Men with hormone sensitive disease are treated with androgen deprivation therapy and possibly chemotherapy. The treatment options for men with castrate resistant disease are rapidly evolving with multiple recently approved treatment options. Determining the proper sequence and combination of these therapies remains a work in progress.
ISSN:0026-6620