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Why are patients getting enzalutamide s/p prostatectomy not candidates for salvage radiation therapy?

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Although there have been other efforts to profile the role of enzalutamide (e.g., SALV-ENZA, Tran et al., PMID 36367998) or other second generation androgen axis inhibitors (e.g., FORMULA-509) in conjunction with salvage RT, EMBARK (Freedland et al., PMID 38320501) was designed to test the efficacy ...

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Radiation Oncology · Lafayette Radiation Center

I’ve asked this question to people on the EMBARK trial as well as reps and presenters, since it came out.

I very rarely use EMBARK. The main problem was the lack of PET. The study quoted above for the "EMBARK-like" cohort at UCLA supports my practice pattern.

I will, however, discuss EMBARK with pati...

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