Treatment options in hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: targeting the androgen-sensitive pathway.

Overview

This podcast examines how hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC) is treated, specifically looking at therapies that target the androgen-sensitive pathway. Identification of patients and the clinical rationale for following different treatment pathways is reviewed, including examination of the current treatment options for both metastatic HSPC (mHSPC) and nonmetastatic HSPC, and consideration of barriers that might exist for optimal treatment. The importance of selecting a treatment strategy that offers control of the disease but allows the patient to maintain their functionality and quality of life is discussed, with an emphasis that, for patients with high-risk biochemical recurrence or mHSPC, combination treatment with androgen deprivation therapy and an androgen receptor pathway inhibitor is the standard of care that should be considered unless contraindicated.