Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

New York, NY—Men with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) now have several different treatments that improve their survival—docetaxel (Taxo-tere), cabazitaxel (Jevanta), abiraterone (Zytiga), and sipuleucel-T (Provenge).

San Francisco, CA—Two treatments sig­nificantly extended survival in men with metastatic castration-resistant pros­tate cancer (CRPC) in separate phase 3 clinical trials reported at the 2012 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

San Francisco, CA—A new, large comparative effectiveness analysis of 3 techniques for delivering radiation therapy for the treatment of localized prostate cancer supports intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) as the current standard, said Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, and Research Fellow, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC at the 2012 annual Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.