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.
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.
Endocyte, Inc. announced that it has enrolled the first man into its phase 3 VISION study of 177Lu-PSMA-617 as a clinical therapy. Cancer ABCs has had a number of men asking about the trial.
VISION is an open-label, randomized trial assessing the addition of radiolabeled prostate-specific membrane antigen to standard therapy for PSMA-positive, previously treated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). The study will enroll 750 men in total, with the primary endpoint being overall survival.
Currently, there are six different trials evaluating 177Lu-PSMA-617 actively recruiting men worldwide. In the United States they are at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, UCLA in Los Angles, and one site in Houston Texas. There are also trials in multiple locations in the UK, in Italy and in Australia. For additional trial information and locations go to
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?term=177Lu-PSMA-617&Search=Search
Joel T. Nowak, MA, MSW wrote this Post. Joel is the CEO/Executive Director of Cancer ABCs. He is a Cancer Thriver diagnosed with five primary cancers - Thyroid, Metastatic Prostate, Renal, Melanoma, and the rare cancer Appendiceal cancer.
