The Heterogeneity of Prostate Cancer

“MPS2 could potentially improve the health of our patients by avoiding overdiagnosis and overtreatment and allowing us to focus on those who are most likely to have aggressive cancers," says Ganesh S. Palapattu, MD, FACS.

In this podcast episode, Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI, discusses the need to increase diversity in clinical trials, specifically focusing on studies in prostate cancer.

According to the authors, these findings highlight the need to more effectively include Black men in prostate cancer research.

Zeyad Schwen, MD, a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, discusses how patient factors and cancer characteristics are key to deciding between focal therapies and whole gland treatment for prostate cancer.

Overall, 39% of those who received a university-formatted report and 56% of those who received a VA-formatted report were able to identify that they had prostate cancer.

At 25 weeks, FACT-P total score remained comparable between the arms.