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Barry Goy, MD, discusses decrease in sexual function and increase in quality of life that may occur with the addition of SADT to EBRT for patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

Barry Goy, MD, discusses benefits and risks of EBRT plus SADT.

Though some factors like sexual function may be negatively affected, the addition of short-term neoadjuvant androgen deprivation therapy (SADT) may increase quality of life (QOL) for patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer (IRPC), according to an oncologist.

Barry Goy, MD, spoke with Oncology Nursing News about possible adverse effects of SADT at the 

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, where his research on external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in conjunction with SADT was presented.

Goy explained some of the benefits and risks of EBRT and SADT, including alleviating some of the mental burden of a decreased QOL with IRPC. While it may not always be cost-efficient for patients with intermediate or lower risk, he said it may be beneficial for those living with IRPC. Goy is a radiation oncologist at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center.

You always ask the patients in regards to their sexual function. Some patients are still very active, although, for most patients, though, when they have recurrence, it tends to be years later from their initial treatment, so things have changed, maybe, and it may not be as important to them.

So, you know, putting patients on salvage [androgen deprivation therapy] does have some side effects, although by and large, usually it's fairly tolerable.

And the other consideration is a mental consideration, psychologic consideration, because some patients are extremely nervous about their PSA recurrence. So some patients we wind up treating just because mentally, their quality of life goes down…even though it may not kill them.

I don't know if that's the most cost-effective treatment for patients with recurrent prostate cancer, but…those are some of the considerations that I take into account.

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Increase in QOL and decrease in sexual function are among the benefits and risks, respectively, of adding SADT to EBRT for intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

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Michael Lai, ARNP, explained the mechanism of action of PARP inhibitors for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

Michael Lai, ARNP, on the mechanism of action of PARP inhibitors for prostate cancer.

In the treatment of prostate cancer, PARP inhibitors can lead to double-strand DNA breaks, thus resulting in cancer death, and expert said.

With prostate cancer cells, PARP inhibitors can selectively target pathogenic DNA damage repair mutations such as 

 to potentially improve the control of a patient’s cancer, said Michael Lai, ARNP, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Teaching Associate in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Some PARP inhibitors include olaparib (Lynparza), rucaparib (Rubraca), and niraparib (Zejula).

At the recent 8th Annual School of Nursing Oncology, Lai presented on the optimized use of PARP inhibitors in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer. He also spoke with Oncology Nursing News to understand the mechanism of action of PARP inhibitors and how they can further benefit patients.

The PARP inhibitor class of drugs work by inhibiting the PARP protein, which is an enzyme involved in single-strand DNA repair. By inhibiting PARP, this can lead eventually to double-strand DNA breaks.

Now, typically, a normal cell without any issues in its DNA repair will rely on the powerful homologous recombination repair process to address double-strand DNA breaks and perform then the needed DNA damage repair to survive. But if you have a cell with a key mutation in homologous recombination repair, particularly 

, then without this machinery in play, using a PARP inhibitor at that time, thereby also shutting down this avenue for single-strand DNA repair, can essentially open up a lethal vulnerability and result in cancer cell death.

So specifically in prostate cancer cells, we can selectively target those with known pathogenic DNA damage repair mutations like 

, and hopefully better control patients’ cancer.

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Understanding the Mechanism of Action Behind PARP Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer

In the genitourinary cancer space, there have been a lot of updates to follow in the past 5 years. At the 

, a nurse practitioner at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, about why he thinks there have been so many updates recently.

I think that it's sort of a coalescence of a number of different things, timing, maybe a little bit of luck, and there's just a lot more interest in bladder cancer these days. It's a deadly disease when it's metastatic, and we're trying to find options that go beyond the first and second line that can really prove to have some survival benefit. For prostate cancer, it's such a common ubiquitous disease amongst men, and so, it just makes sense to continue the research in this realm and provide all the options that we can. 

The genitourinary cancer space has seen a lot of updates in the past 5-10 years, but where are they all coming from so suddenly? Oncology Nursing News spoke with Michael Lai, ARNP, a nurse practitioner at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, about how the genitourinary cancer space has been able to have so many updates recently.

Where New Updates in Genitourinary Cancer Continue to Come From

Prostate cancer tumors tend to be "cold," meaning that they may have difficulty responding to immunotherapy treatment. But combining agents may help improve their responsiveness, explained 

, a nurse practitioner at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. 

So in prostate cancer, we're looking at, for example, immunotherapy and utilizing this in that context. For immunotherapy, what we're doing right now is, as opposed to doing a single-agent model, using dual agents, because prostate cancer can tend to be a relatively "cold" tumor. So if you use something like docetaxel first or in conjunction with immunotherapies like pembrolizumab (Keytruda) or standard-of-care agents such as abiraterone (Zytiga), the idea is: can we warm up the tumor so that the prostate cancer is more susceptible to immunotherapy agents such as pembrolizumab or others.

Can combining agents turn "cold" prostate cancer tumors "hot"? 

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