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CME: The state of prostate cancer treatment: advances in approach for advanced disease

ACCREDITATION EXPIRED: November 02, 2025

Activity Description / Statement of Need:

In this online, self-learning activity:

Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common form of malignancy among men in the United States. There are over 299,000 new cases and over 35,000 deaths from PC in the U.S. annually. Over the past few decades, the death rates associated with PC have declined, likely due to changes in screening practices and improved treatment options. However, during the same time period, the incidence of advanced PC has increased, and it accounts for about half of patients who are diagnosed. While patients with local or regional disease have 5-year survival rates close to 100%, that number decreases to under 35% for patients with metastatic disease (mPC).

Target Audience:

HCPs including: medical oncologists, oncology surgeons, and pathologists; physicians assistants, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists specializing in oncology; and other clinicians who are involved in providing diagnostic and therapeutic services for patients with mPC.


Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by an educational grant from Merck. 

This activity is free of charge.


Release Date: November 02, 2024 -- Expiration Date: November 02, 2025

Faculty: David Wise, MD

Agenda

Faculty introduction, disclosures

Introductory content and review of mPC [Learning Objective #1]

  • Statistics, prognosis

· Healthcare burden

Treatment considerations for mPC, including guideline-based approaches and clinical trial evidence

  • Goals of therapy
  • Castration-sensitive disease
    • Docetaxel
    • A second-generation antiandrogen
    • An androgen synthesis inhibitor
    • Low-risk/-volume vs. high-risk/-volume disease
    • ADT plus
  • Monitoring
  • Genetic sequencing
  • Considerations in specific circumstances
    • BRCA or HRR mutations
    • MSI/dMMR, TMB, or CDK12 mutations
    • Clinically asymptomatic patients without visceral metastases
    • Bony metastases
    • PSMA-positive disease
    • Disease flare prevention

· Castration-resistant disease: treatment history and other considerations

· Updates in investigational therapies

  • Treatment challenges and gaps in care, including adverse effect identification and management 
  • Patient case(s)

Summary, conclusions, and best practice recap

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

  • Summarize challenges related to the healthcare burden and treatment of metastatic prostate cancer (mPC).
  • Describe the role of current and emerging pharmacotherapies in different treatment lines and factors impacting therapeutic decision-making in mPC.
  • Develop a treatment plan for a patient with mPC.

Accreditation

ACCME Activity #202840993

ACCREDITATION FOR THIS COURSE HAS EXPIRED. YOU MAY VIEW THE PROGRAM, BUT CME / CE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE AND NO CERTIFICATE WILL BE ISSUED.

Faculty Disclosure and Resolution of COI

As a provider of continuing medical education, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. In accordance with this policy, faculty and educational planners must disclose any significant relationships with commercial interests whose products or devices may be mentioned in faculty presentations, and any relationships with the commercial supporter of the activity. The intent of this disclosure is to provide the intended audience with information on which they can make their own judgments. Additionally, in the event a conflict of interest (COI) does exist, it is the policy of ScientiaCME to ensure that the COI is resolved in order to ensure the integrity of the CME activity. For this CME activity, any COI has been resolved thru content review by ScientiaCME.

Disclosures of Faculty: David Wise, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Urology, NYU ‐ New York University School of Medicine, received financial compensation from Leap Therapeutics, Pfizer, Bayer, K36, Sanofi, Oncoc4, Accutar, Astra Zeneca for consulting.

Disclosures of Educational Planners: Charles Turck, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, President of ScientiaCME, has no relevant financial disclosures.  

Faculty WILL NOT discuss off-label uses of a commercial product. 

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. 

ScientiaCME adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Commercial Support Disclosure: This program is supported by an educational grant from Merck. 

Instructions

  • Read the learning objectives above
  • Take the Pre-Test (optional). Completion of the pre-test will help us evaluate the knowledge gained by participating in this CME activity.
  • View the online activity. You may view this is in more than one session, and may pause or repeat any portion of the presentation if you need to.
  • Minimum participation threshold: Take the post-test. A score of 70% or higher is required to pass and proceed to the activity evaluation.
  • Complete the activity evaluation and CME registration. A CE certificate will be emailed to you immediately.

Cultural/Linguistic Competence & Health Disparities

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PC
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MAC
Mac OS 10.2.8
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Perform Pre-Test (optional)

Please take a few minutes to participate in the optional pre-test. It will help us measure the knowledge gained by participating in this activity.


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