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GU Cancers 2026 | International collaboration for PC-PEP in prostate cancer care

Robert Rutledge, MD, FRCPC, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, discusses the opportunity for international collaboration in the Prostate Cancer Patient Empowerment Program (PC-PEP), where sites can collect their own patient-related outcomes data and compare it to the international group of data. The ultimate goal is testing the program in various centers worldwide. This interview took place at the 2026 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, CA.

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Well, first of all, please reach out to us at pcpep.org. That’s the easy information and you can contact us and then we will get you going. We’ll set you up as a site lead in your country and you’re able to collect that data. So as part of the phase four data, we’re measuring quality of life at 0, 6, 12, and 24 months. So you get to collect your own problems or patient-related outcomes data as part of this trial...

Well, first of all, please reach out to us at pcpep.org. That’s the easy information and you can contact us and then we will get you going. We’ll set you up as a site lead in your country and you’re able to collect that data. So as part of the phase four data, we’re measuring quality of life at 0, 6, 12, and 24 months. So you get to collect your own problems or patient-related outcomes data as part of this trial. And you compare your data against the international group of data. And this is kind of a research collaboration as well. So first of all, come join us. Secondly, the technology is evolving such that it’s much easier for us to produce programming in different languages. So we have it voiceover for French, voiceover for Romanian. We’ll have excellent subtitles for Dutch. However, we want to test this in other languages. We’re here at ASCO connected with a Brazilian oncologist. We’re going to be opening up in different centers elsewhere. So we want that collaboration. We want to be able to test the program elsewhere. And we believe that this is so universal and so helpful that we want men to participate. We want clinicians to come join our research team.

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