Opinion|Videos|March 13, 2025
How would therapeutic options change if this patient was asymptomatic?
Author(s)Abhishek Tripathi, MD
An expert discusses alternative treatment options for a symptomatic patient with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and highlights the caveats around the data from the Phase 3 ALSYMPCA study of radium-223, including its conduct in an era prior to the introduction of abiraterone (ABI) and enzalutamide (ENZA).
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Episodes in this series
- What if this patient was symptomatic? What other options might you consider?
- What are the caveats around data from the phase 3 ALSYMPCA study of Ra-223 for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)? (eg, conducted in era before introduction of ABI and ENZA)
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