EAU 2017 | Advanced prostate cancer treatment – if, when and what?

Axel Merseburger, from the Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Lübeck, Germany, speaks about highlights from the session on advanced prostate cancer at the European Association of Urology (EAU) conference 2017 in London, UK. He says that there was a lot of discussion about advanced prostate cancer, such as what to do with lymph node recurrence after prostatectomy if cancer is found in a small number of lymph nodes in the pelvis after a period of remission. A subsequent presentation covered the complications of this procedure. The session also covered systemic therapy in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and Prof. Merseburger highlights a study of Radium-223 in combination with androgen receptor (AR)-targeted therapy. Prof. Merseburger describes work which investigated how often imaging should be carried out in prostate cancer.