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Patient has ED unresponsive to cialis/viagra; would you recommend testosterone replacement therapy?

At what PSA would you become suspicious for biochemical recurrence and pursue restaging? Is there a threshold value? What imaging modality would you ...

Would you use it for initial staging or at time of biochemical recurrence?

Would you offer adjuvant radiation? (Dose? Target?) vs Salvage? Would you add ADT? Would you add abiraterone? Would the number of lymph nodes involv...

Only the mCRPC population was included in the Fizazi et al. study, but the FDA approval is for prevention of skeletal related events from any solid tu...

Would you consider boosting the nodes?  What dose?  Would this change your recommendation for length of ADT?  

Would you consider chemotherapy, androgen blockade or triple therapy (chemo and AR targeting)?

How high would you try to boost those involved nodes if they are in a favorable location with respect to his rectum and small bowel? 

Are there clinical features (post-op PSA, Decipher score, pN+, pT3, etc) that would inform your decision?

Do you worry about false negatives on PET, CT, MRI if ADT is started before the scan? Scheduling scans can sometimes book 2-4 weeks out. 

Per lutathera information, a patient who had previous treatment for describes an estimated radiation absorbed dose of 12.8 Gy to the bladder. Would yo...

Is there a role of EBRT to the prostate with extended fields to cover the retroperitoneal nodes plus ADT (definitive therapy) or would you treat as ca...

PSA rose from 25 to 30 ng/mL over 6 months on darolutamide for M0 CRPC, prompting scans which showed oligometastatic disease to bone, not amenable to ...

GS 4+4. PSA low (1-2). CT and bone scan negative for lymphadenopathy or metastatic disease.  Prostate MRI pending. 

Would you recommend surgery first or neoadjuvant therapy such as concurrent cisplatin/RT or another regimen?

Did you change your practice given the SRE results in the control arm of EORTC 1333 at ASCO 2021? When using bisphosphonates or denosumab, what dosin...

For the purpose of this question, please assume an initially undetectable post-prostatectomy PSA, no presence of positive margins, extracapsular exten...

Are there certain situations where a hydrogel spacer is most useful based on treatment modality (SBRT, protons, brachy, etc) or other factors?

Do prior treatments for mHSPC change your thinking on whether or not to use sipuleucel-T?

Specifically, would you offer salvage radiation to a patient who underwent a prostatectomy with PLND and had a post-op PSA of 12 with pathology reveal...

If a patient who has undergone radical prostatectomy many years previously presents with biochemical failure and is found to have a nodule in the pros...

A recent NCBD analysis (Rusthoven et al, JCO 2016) suggests that the addition of prostate RT significantly improves survival compared to ADT alon...

What clinical scenario(s) do you find results to be the most beneficial?

There is a recent publication that nicely summarizes the molecular/genetic tests for prostate cancer (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26123120). W...

Assuming patient received appropriate local therapy for brain metastases, which agent would you use?

What is the time window in which you would consider adding AR targeted therapy? Is there a time frame in which you would NOT consider introducing sin...

Is there an optimal strategy to minimize unnecesary steroid use?For example, pre-treatment dexamethasone or 3 day dexamethasone? Prednisone only conti...

Is there data and FDA approval for this indication? What about for nodal failure after radiation? 

What dose constraint would you use for the neobladder? Small bowel constraint of 54Gy? Or would you recommend observation or ADT alone or low dose RT ...

How would a much higher risk cancer affect decision making? How would you treat him? 

Abstract 5014 at ASCO annual meeting 2019 showed superiority of PSMA-PET imaging over fluciclovine-PET imaging.  Are you utilizing these speciali...

Do you offer EPO and TPO support? Do you modify your systemic therapy up front or after subsequent cycles?

In the SPARTAN trial, median PSA at study entry was ~ 7. Does the MFS benefit extend to patients with low PSA(< 2 or < 1)?

For instance, if the fluclicovine scan shows a few small avid nodes not only in the pelvis but extending to the paraaortic region, would you treat the...

Based on the RADICALS-RT trial presented at ESMO, can RT be omitted in post op prostate patients in favor of salvage RT? If not which group of patient...

Will your recommendation change if there is suspicious/confirmed locally recurrent nodule in the prostate bed?

In a patient with a prior response to ADT and progression on taxane and platinum chemotherapy, would you consider AR directed therapy?

Per the ALSYMPCA study, they excluded patients with > 3cm lymphadenopathy. Patient is currently on enzalutamide and leuprolide and refuses docetaxe...

Does the STAMPEDE trial, showing a survival benefit with the addition of docetaxel to standard treatment, change the standard of care for high risk, n...

Is there a benefit to one fractionation schedule v. the other?

Or would you proceed with cabazitaxel or other therapy? Initial chemo-hormonal therapy was ADT + Docetaxel x6 cycles. Docetaxel rechallenge at time o...

Treatment for small cell/neuroendocrine prostate is extrapolated from data on small cell lung cancer. It now appears that Carboplatin + Etoposide + At...

Are you directed by symptoms, PSA changes or do you have a standard schedule regardless of those factors?

Abstract LBA5_PR ‘Radiotherapy (RT) to the primary tumour for men with newly-diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer (PCA): survival results from S...

Prospective International Randomized Phase II Study of Low-Dose Abiteraterone with Food versus Standard Dose Abiraterone In Castration-Resistant Prost...

Is there a dose response relationship, as suggested in the phase I MSKCC dose escalation study presented at ASTRO 2017?

For which patients would you consider addition of apalutamide or enzalutamide? How do you decide between the 2 drugs?

NCCN recommends to change therapy or maintain current therapy in this setting without further clarification. What thresholds would cause a change in t...

Based on the updated results of the PCS IV trial is 18 months of ADT the new standard of care for men with high-risk prostate cancer treated with...

Would you initiate abiraterone or enzalutamide for the rising PSA or wait until the patient is symptomatic or has a new site of metastasis?

In the case of patients many years out from RP who have a slowly rising PSA, do you offer salvage RT while the PSA is still very low or follow the PSA...

In patients with new bone pain and without any evidence of bone metastases receiving GnRH agonists, how do you manage pain symptoms?

With biopsy-proven, negative systemic restaging disease, what dose and fractionation is appropriate if treating with IMRT? Should ADT generally b...

Would you consider this an indication to treat lymph nodes, if you would typically not do so?

Is there an upper limit to offer definitive RT? Is it possible to have a PSA of 100-500 and still have only local disease?

Should the workup change with the PSA level (for example, >2 vs <2 ng/ml post-op PSA)?  Is there a PSA level for which salvage radiotherapy...

Two retrospective studies from Stanford showed that patients who received ADT had an increased risk of dementia and Alzheimer's. Is this finding ...

Do you use a PSA threshold, PSA doubling time, or only evidence of metastatic disease to trigger ADT? For those without rapid doubling time, do you ev...

In the recent 10 year update of the ARO (adjuvant pelvic RT versus observation) trial, their definition of PSA failure was 2 successive rise...

Would a specific Gleason score, age, pathological feature, or PSA be an indication for covering the pelvic nodes? Would giving concurrent ADT affect y...

Given recent advancements in the understanding of biological differences in prostate cancer patients of African vs. other ancestry, does your manageme...

Does PSADT play a factor in your decision-making? If so, how specifically?  I've tended to wait until the PSA is 10-15, re-image, and then begin...

If so, how do you sequence this with other therapies?  In addition, in the absence of an effect on radiographic PFS or serum PSA, how do you asse...

In situations where there is a significant risk of either local or nodal persistence/recurrence post prostatectomy with a rising PSA, or nodal involve...

A recent systematic review suggested that disease progression owing to a testosterone "flare" may not be a real phenomenon: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...

The role of adjuvant docetaxel with ADT following RT for high risk disease has been previously elucidated by RTOG 0521.  Following prostatectomy,...

At the ASCO 2016 annual meeting, results of the PRINCE trial were reported. A strategy of intermittent docetaxel was found to be non-inferior to conti...

 In a patient with node positive disease, treated definitively with radiation, should continuous or intermittent ADT be administered? If a patien...

Typically radium-223 is reserved for men with symptomatic bone disease after failure of multiple other therapies.  Is there a population of men w...

Guidelines dont seem to account for this possibility. Could it just be normal prostate tissue growing back that is leading to PSA, why just assume it ...

In starting prostate SBRT at an instutution, what are issues with the treatment that one should pay special attention to?

On what other factors should be considered in making a treatment recommendation for salvage radiation therapy?

What factors should be considered with offering SBRT to oligometastatic bone disease in prostate cancer patients? Should this been done off of a proto...

With ultra-sensitive PSA, it's unclear to me whether a doubling from 0.01 to 0.02 or 0.02 to 0.04 is significant. Is there a certain value that you wo...

If a patient is deemed high risk enough to require hormones with RT in the salvage setting, how long would you maintain them on ADT? Would you extrapo...

When counseling patients with organ-confined prostate cancer, what rates of impotence, incontinence, rectal toxicity, and urethral stricture shou...

The optimal timing of post-prostatectomy RT in high-risk patients is debatable and currently the question of prospective randomized trials; however, g...

Do you use a particular cut-off? For example, someone in their 40's?

The patient has a positive bone scan (2 lesions), grade 4+5=9/10 prostate, and cancer cannot urinate without a catheter.

More specifically, which cardiac risk factors do you look for? Diabetes? Previous MI? Dyslipidemia? Peripheral vascular disease? CHF?

In general how do you counsel patients with high risk prostate cancer when choosing radiation verse prostatectomy? What numbers do you quote for ...

This is a patient who would have been an appropriate candidate for radiation upfront, but was managed with androgen deprivation therapy instead. On th...

Sometimes the scans don’t line up well because of differences in rectal and bladder fullness- any tips to optimize the fusion?

I ask this because I am seeing more and more patients who have had surgery despite presenting with high risk disease.

I know many do not treat the pelvis at all, but for those who do, what criteria do you use? Risk? Gleason? PSA? T stage?

And should special precautions be taken (such as dose reduction, prophylactic symptom management, etc)?


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