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ESMO 2026 | Combination therapy with AR-targeted and PSMA-targeted agents in prostate cancer

Alice Bernard-Tessier, MD, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France, discusses the potential of combining androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapies with prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeted radioligand therapy, noting that while AR inhibition may increase PSMA levels, it is unclear if this translates to a response to lutetium PSMA. Current data do not support a direct link between PSMA upregulation and response to lutetium PSMA, but rather points to a potential synergy between AR inhibition and radiation-induced DNA damage. This interview took place at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2026 Congress in Madrid, Spain.

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That’s a very good question. I’ve worked on it in the lab for two years. And for now, I think it’s still a myth. We have some data showing that ARPI in mCRPC is increasing PSMA, but it doesn’t mean that it’s associated with response to lutetium PSMA. And so my question is, maybe it’s just an artifact, an artificial increase, but it doesn’t mean that it’s associated with response to lutetium PSMA...

That’s a very good question. I’ve worked on it in the lab for two years. And for now, I think it’s still a myth. We have some data showing that ARPI in mCRPC is increasing PSMA, but it doesn’t mean that it’s associated with response to lutetium PSMA. And so my question is, maybe it’s just an artifact, an artificial increase, but it doesn’t mean that it’s associated with response to lutetium PSMA. The question is also, we are putting lutetium PSMA in mCRPC on hormone-sensitive setting and the PSMA upregulation is quite different. So from the PSMA upregulation point of view, I don’t think the current data we have is building on that, on this combination. But the AR is helping to respond, the AR inhibition is helping to respond and to increase response to radiation. And we know in localized prostate cancer that there is a synergy between androgen targeting and radiation so probably there is something not about the PSMA regulation but about the biology and the DNA damage that’s induced by lutetium PSMA.

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