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ESMO 2025 | Emerging treatment strategies in castration-resistant prostate cancer

Bertrand Tombal, MD, PhD, Université catholique de Louvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, discusses the evolving landscape of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). In addition to androgen deprivation therapies (ADT) and an androgen receptor (AR) pathway inhibitors, treatment is moving towards adding therapies in three key directions: PARP inhibitors for patients with BRCA1/2 mutations, radioligands for those with high PSMA expression, and radium for patients with bone metastases. This interview took place at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2025 Congress in Berlin, Germany.

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So, when we speak about metastatic CRPC, first, the most important change in the landscape is the definition of the disease itself. Previously, metastatic CRPC were patients progressing on androgen deprivation therapy alone. Now, if it hasn’t yet fully changed, it will soon. We are speaking about patients who have received ADT and an AR pathway inhibitor so that’s important so when we speak about metastatic CRPC we always have to speak about the historical one progressing on ADT alone and the intensified one progressing on a doublet...

So, when we speak about metastatic CRPC, first, the most important change in the landscape is the definition of the disease itself. Previously, metastatic CRPC were patients progressing on androgen deprivation therapy alone. Now, if it hasn’t yet fully changed, it will soon. We are speaking about patients who have received ADT and an AR pathway inhibitor so that’s important so when we speak about metastatic CRPC we always have to speak about the historical one progressing on ADT alone and the intensified one progressing on a doublet. The most important change is that clearly we’re not satisfied with ADT and an AR pathway inhibitor. We need to add something and that something is clearly in three directions: PARP inhibitor for those harboring BRCA1, 2 and maybe other mutations. Patients will have a high expression of PSMA for which we’re going to have a radioligand and those who have bone metastases for which we’re going to have radium. And finally, still, when do we feed in with docetaxel.

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