Prostate Cancer: Later Stage Treatment

Treatment for advanced prostate disease has improved dramatically over the last 10 years and continues to improve. In this series, SurvivorNet doctors help compare the pros and cons of each treatment.

Later Stage Treatment: New Treatment Developments

Customizable treatment combinations are available for those facing advanced prostate cancer.
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) lowers hormone levels that can fuel cancer.
Newer ADTs include: Xtandi (enzalutamide) and Erleada (apalutamide).
ADT can be combined with chemo, PARP inhibitors, or other drugs.

Later Stage

How to Treat Late-Stage Prostate Cancer: New Treatment Developments

Later Stage

Orgovyx, The First Approved Oral Testosterone-Lowering Drug For Prostate Cancer

Promising Data on Drug Nubeqa Could Mean Better Targeted Treatments for Men With Advanced Prostate Cancer

Later Stage

Zytiga is Making a Real Difference For Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Treatment

Xtandi Offers A Promising New Treatment Option For Advanced Prostate Cancer

Digital Guide: Dr. Michael Carducci on How Next-Generation Sequencing is Used for Prostate Cancer

Later Stage Treatment: New Treatment Developments

Customizable treatment combinations are available for those facing advanced prostate cancer.
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) lowers hormone levels that can fuel cancer.
Newer ADTs include: Xtandi (enzalutamide) and Erleada (apalutamide).
ADT can be combined with chemo, PARP inhibitors, or other drugs.

Later Stage Treatment: Radiation Therapy

Later Stage

New Hope For Advanced Prostate Cancer: Delivering Radiation at The Cellular Level - Understanding Pluvicto, Now Approved By The FDA

Treatment

Brachytherapy Streamlines Prostate Cancer Care, Cutting Back Treatment Time Without Diminishing Results

Treatment

How Targeted Radiation Can Treat Advanced Prostate Cancer Faster, With Outcomes Equal to Surgery

Later Stage

What's Involved in Low-Dose Rate Brachytherapy

Dr. Patrick Swift
Stanford Medicine

Dr. Patrick Swift

Stanford Medicine

Later Stage

How Effective Is Proton Beam Therapy?

Dr. James Taylor
GenesisCare

Later Stage

Benefit Of External Beam Radiation: It's Non-Invasive

Dr. Patrick Swift
Stanford Medicine

Later Stage Treatment: Radiation Therapy

New Options When Other Medications Are Not Working

Living

Decorated Navy Veteran Reverses Devastating Prognosis With New Treatment for Prostate Cancer

George Crawford, a native New Yorker, has been through a lot in his 81 years. He lived through World War II, he was in the Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis; he's done a lot of living and he has a lot of stories to tell. But receiving his prostate cancer diagnosis still came as a big shock. "When my doctor told me t... Read More

SurvivorNet Staff

Later Stage Treatment: Are Clinical Trials an Option?

Why I'd Choose a Clinical Trial For Myself

Dr. Ben Neel
NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center

Treatment

When Should I Consider Clinical Trials?

Dr. Leena Gandhi
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. Alana Welm

Huntsman Cancer Institute

Later Stage

Clinical Trials and What Statistics Really Mean

Dr. Scott Strome
University of Maryland

Treatment

The Father of Immunotherapy Recommends Multiple Opinions

Dr. Steven Rosenberg
National Cancer Institute

Later Stage Treatment: Are Clinical Trials an Option?

What is the Immunotherapy Vaccine?

Later Stage

Immunotherapy Vaccine for Late-Stage Prostate Cancer

You may have heard about Provenge (also known as Sipuleucel-T), which is the only immunotherapy vaccine currently FDA-approved for the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer. Like other immunotherapy drugs, it uses a patient's own immune system to attack the cancer cells. The vaccine is usually given to men who have e... Read More

Dr. Stephen Freedland Cedars-Sinai Medical Center