CONTEXT: Controversies and uncertainties among integral management of advanced castration resistant prostate cancer continue to exist despite the number of evidence based clinical practice guidelines published with high international consensus.
OBJECTIVE: To develop a document that reviews the management of controversies in advanced castration resistant prostate cancer, with recommendations from the definition, to the management in hormonal maneuvers, first-line treatment and second-line with new treatments as cabazitaxel or abirarerone and the multidisciplinary approach of the pathology with the goal of finding the most efficient, best time to act and safety.
EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: Two meetings of a multidisciplinary group of experts involved in the management of this disease (Oncologist and Urologist) where pooled analysis of original literature and reached consensus document of recommendations on castration resistant prostate cancer, reviewing and attempting to address the current controversies of the disease.
EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: This document is endorsed by the corresponding Scientific Associations and Working Groups involved in the current management of Genitourinary Tumours: the Spanish Association of Urology (AEU) with the Uro-Oncoloy Group (GUO) and the Spanish Oncology of Genitourinary Group (SOGUG).
CONCLUSIONS: With the adaptation and implementation of this Document of Recommendations for clinical practice are available for the first time, a real road map for quality, efficiency and safety in the management of patients with CRPC.
Written by:
Cózar JM, Solsona E, Morote J, Miñana B, Maroto JP, González Del Alba A, Climent MA, Carles J, Alcaraz A, Castellano D. Are you the author?
Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, España.
Reference: Actas Urol Esp. 2012 Sep 19. pii: S0210-4806(12)00248-3.
doi: 10.1016/j.acuro.2012.06.004
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 22999347
Article in English, Spanish.
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