This complete guide to Bipolar Androgen Therapy (BAT) should be your stepping-off point if you are interested in using BAT to treat your castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CrPC).
Several men have asked us if they are better off having 177Lu-PSMA-617 (Pluvicto) or Xofigo, a radiopharmaceutical drug that treats bone metastases. There is no simple answer, and the answer is not the same for each of us. Making a sound decision can be helped by understanding the mode of action and the limits of each treatment.
LYNPARZA (olaparib) and RUBRACA (rucaparib) are PARP Inhibitors that were FDA approved in May of 2020 for men with castrate resistant prostate cancer who also have certain genetic mutations. The FDA also approved certain Companion Diagnostic genetic tests to go along with the decision making to use these PARP Inhibitors.
There is a lot of information now available with these recent developments which makes decision making confusing.
There are several possible side effects that can result from receiving radiation treatment. The most common of these side effects include the development of scar tissue that makes it hard to urinate (pee), defecate (poop), and in some instances, link the activity of either peeing and pooping together; bladder or colon bleeding and diarrhea.
The technology, PET/CT exemplifies one of the most sensitive of the diagnostic modalities we have to assess the spread of recurrent prostate cancer.
However, there is an assumption that even PET/CT, despite its sensitivity, still under-estimates the actual tumor burden. There is an additional hypothesis that the under estimation of tumor burden increases progressively by the number of positive nodes that are visualized by preoperative imaging.
