URO Today has published a collection of videos from the APCC 2019 conference. This informative collection of 60 short videos cover a wide range of prostate cancer topics. You can view the video collection on URO Today HERE
Updates on Clinical/Research Activities in Prostate Cancer at Stanford University
Dr. Andrei Iagaru, Professor of Radiology and Chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at Stanford presented to our group about Nuclear Medicine at Stanford University and Updates on Clinical/Research Activities in Prostate Cancer on March 7, 2019.
Access the recording and presentation slides from the links below:
NCCN Issues New Guidelines to Equip Patients to Understand Immunotherapy Side Effects
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) issued new guidelines on understanding and managing immunotherapy-related toxicities.
Read more on curetuday.com HERE
2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium – Proceedings on Prostate Cancer
The 2018 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium event featured groundbreaking research among members of the cancer care and research community who diagnose, treat, and study genitourinary malignancies.
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Summary of State of Immunotherapy, especially Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
By Ravi A. Madan, MD, and William L. Dahut, MD
Although immunotherapies are poised to permanently reshape treatment for bladder and kidney cancers, immune-based therapeutics research in prostate cancer has stagnated. There is immunotherapy available for prostate cancer, however, the delayed effects of treatment and the rare effect on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels have generated less enthusiasm compared with the rapid and sustained responses in some patients with bladder and kidney cancers who have been treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. In addition, recent negative results of some trials have raised more concerns about the lack of potential for immunotherapy in prostate cancer. Nonetheless, several ongoing studies of immune checkpoint inhibitor combinations are potentially defining a course for immunotherapy development.
Read the article here
PCF’s 2017 State of the Science Report
Highlights and summary from the 24th Annual PCF Scientific Retreat on October 2017. Read the report here.
FDA Approves Foundation Medicine’s FoundationOne CDx Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Test
FDA has approved the FoundationOne CDx (F1CDx) cancer biomarker assay concurrently with a decision from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide insurance coverage for the next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) test.
FDA Approves Foundation Medicine’s FoundationOne CDx™, the First and Only Comprehensive Genomic Profiling Test for All Solid Tumors Incorporating Multiple Companion Diagnostics.
Read more about it here
US Too Prostate Cancer Panel Discussion and Webcast on Advanced Prostate Cancer
US Too Prostate Cancer Panel Discussion and Webcast on Advanced Prostate Cancer
- Presented by: Bayer
- Sponsored by: Dendreon and Jannsen Oncology
- In Kind Sponsor: Los Padres
- Guest Speakers:
- Dr. Edwin Morales – Urology Specialist, San Antonio
- Dr. Michael Liss – Urologist, Urologic Oncologist, and Lead Prostate Cancer Researcher at UT Health, San Antonio
- Dr. Vijay K. Gunuganti – Medical Oncologist at Texas Oncology
- Moderator: Dr. Juan A. Reyna – Staff Physician at Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital; and Clinical Faculty at UT Health
Watch the recording here
Dr. Mark Scholz and Panel Discussion Video – El Camino Hospital
Dr. Mark Scholz participated in a tumor board session with a discussion of Prostate Cancer Cases at El Camino Hospital in November 2017.
Participants included:
- Robert Sinha, MD, Medical Director of Radiation Oncology
- Frank Lai, MD, Urological Oncologist/Robotic Surgeon, El Camino Hospital
- Steven Kurtzman, MD, Radiation Oncologist, Director of Prostate Brachytherapy, El Camino Hospital
- Shane Dormady, MD PhD, Medical Director of Oncology, El Camino Hospital
- Mark Scholz, MD, Medical Oncology, Director of Prostate Cancer Specialists, Founder of Prostate Cancer Research Institute
View the recording of the event here
Breaking news re Prostvac in mCRPC
Apparently, late yesterday, Barvarian Nordic announced that Prostvac has failed to show efficacy in the Phase III PROSPECT trial of the treatment of men with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
Click here for Barvarian Nordic’s media release
Read more here on Prostate Cancer InfoLink