Ep. 93 Management of Advanced Prostate Cancer for the Urologist with Dr. Rana McKay

On this episode of BackTable Urology, Dr. Aditya Bagrodia and Dr. Rana McKay, a medical oncologist at UC San Diego, discuss guidelines and advances in prostate cancer treatment. --- CHECK OUT OUR SPONSOR Veracyte https://www.veracyte.com/decipher --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn free AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/B9kR7B --- SHOW NOTES First, they define three types of prostate cancer. Metastatic castration-sensitive disease refers to patients with metastatic cancer who have low testosterone levels because of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Nonmetastatic castration-resistant disease is nonmetastatic cancer with testosterone levels unresponsive to ADT. This category is harder to define as the classification varies based on imaging modality. Finally, metastatic castration-resistant disease is the most lethal type of prostate cancer, as there is an unmet need in developing therapeutics for these patients. Traditionally, the castrate level is defined as a testosterone level