Prostate Cancer Treatment (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version

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Changes to This Summary (10/21/2016)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Stage IV Prostate Cancer Treatment

Added text to include hormonal manipulations with chemotherapy as a new standard treatment option.

Revised text to state that in the CHAARTED trial, 790 patients with metastatic, hormone-sensitive disease were randomly assigned to receive androgen deprivation therapy with or without docetaxel.

Added Hormonal manipulations with chemotherapy as a new subsection.

Recurrent Prostate Cancer Treatment

Added Immediate Versus Deferred Hormonal Therapy as a newly titled and revised subsection.

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