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How would you treat a patient with high-volume metastatic prostate cancer who has asymptomatic biochemical relapse after having a good response to upfront docetaxel?

Would you initiate abiraterone or enzalutamide for the rising PSA or wait until the patient is symptomatic or has a new site of metastasis?
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Medical Oncology · Washington University School of Medicine
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If the patient is asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic and now castrate-resistant, I would start with sipuleucel-T. Based on the PSA quartile data (Schellhammer et al 2013) and in line with current NCCN guidelines and supportive clinical and preclinical data, immunotherapy should be used as early a...

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