Quality and Quantity: Evaluating Tumor Biology Alongside Novel Imaging on Diagnosis of Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer

Vanessa Di Lalla; Michael J Kucharczyk; Alexander W Wyatt; Felix Y Feng; Stephan Probst; Gwenaelle Gravis; Jonathan So; Fred Saad; Tamim Niazi

doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2021.12.038

Quality and Quantity: Evaluating Tumor Biology Alongside Novel Imaging on Diagnosis of Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer

Eur Urol. 2022 May;81(5):437-439. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2021.12.038. Epub 2022 Jan 20.

Authors

Vanessa Di Lalla¹, Michael J Kucharczyk², Alexander W Wyatt³, Felix Y Feng⁴, Stephan Probst⁵, Gwenaelle Gravis⁶, Jonathan So⁷, Fred Saad⁸, Tamim Niazi⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Nova Scotia Cancer Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada.
³ Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁵ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Aix-Marseille University, CRCM, Marseille, France.
⁷ Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal Cancer Institute/CRCHUM, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁹ Department of Radiation Oncology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: tniazi@jgh.mcgill.ca.

PMID: 35065838
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2021.12.038

Abstract

Tumor biology may play an important role as an effective predictive biomarker that is complementary to functional imaging for metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Biology
Hormones
Humans
Male
Prostatic Neoplasms* / diagnostic imaging
Prostatic Neoplasms* / pathology

Substances

Hormones