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Do you hold ADT prior to biopsy of possible prostate cancer metastatic disease?

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Radiation Oncology · Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

ADT can affect the ability to assign a Gleason score, but I am assuming this is not an issue here. We biopsy new sites of metastatic disease in people on ADT all the time to confirm progression and to get tissue to identify potentially actionable targets. The only time I would deliberately hold ADT ...

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