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Future directions in prostate cancer treatment: An oncologist's perspective
Author(s) -
Hussain Maha
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
the prostate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.295
H-Index - 123
eISSN - 1097-0045
pISSN - 0270-4137
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0045(1996)6+<26::aid-pros6>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , systemic therapy , oncology , prostate , hormone therapy , localized disease , disease , cancer , hormonal therapy , androgen deprivation therapy , adjuvant therapy , adjuvant , breast cancer
Prostate cancer has become one of the most important national health problems, as its incidence increases yearly. Conventionally, single‐modality local therapy has been the standard of care for clinically localized stage disease and systemic therapy, in the form of primary or combined androgen deprivation, is reserved for advanced, usually metastatic, prostate cancer. Despite improvements in local therapy, a significant number of patients with clinically localized prostate cancer will suffer a systemic relapse after potentially curative local therapy and, despite 50 years of experience in hormone therapy, significant survival prolongation for patients with metastatic prostate cancer remains a challenge. This paper explores potential future systemic therapy strategies in the treatment of prostate cancer. Specifically, the role of adjuvant systemic therapy as a part of a multimodality treatment approach for localized prostate cancer and alternative applications of hormone and chemohormone therapies for patients with metastatic disease are discussed. © 1996 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.