How do you manage PSA progression while a patient is on Xofigo or Pluvicto?
If a patient has clinical or biochemical progression while on either of these radiopharmaceuticals, would you stop the treatment or continue?
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Radiation Oncology · Corewell Health
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PSA is very much an imperfect tool for these patients. The data show that PSA may initially increase over multiple cycles before decreasing, though this is a minority of patients. Most patients whose PSA increases early have resistant disease, and you should investigate further with imaging...
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Medical Oncology · New York Downtown Hosp
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Change of therapy depends on evaluation after sufficient time has elapsed from the start, and on a fuller picture with ancillary studies.
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