Drug therapies

For men with advanced prostate cancer that no longer responds to standard hormone therapies, treatment options are limited—and time matters. As the disease progresses, the window for effective, less intensive treatments begins to close. The study, published in Cancer Medicine, explored a novel strategy to overcome treatment resistance in advanced prostate cancer.

In this presentation, Dr. Urban Emmenegger explores the benefits and limitations of treatment intensification for prostate cancer, comparing hormone therapy alone with combination approaches such as androgen receptor inhibitors, chemotherapy, and other treatment strategies. It reviews the key factors that influence treatment decisions, including survival outcomes, quality of life, monitoring requirements, cost and insurance considerations, and individual patient preferences. The presentation also discusses how clinicians tailor treatment recommendations based on disease characteristics, such as tumor burden, symptoms, PSA levels, and imaging findings, alongside patient-specific factors including age, overall health, and personal values.

Dr. Geoffrey Gotto, Urologic Oncologist at the Southern Alberta Institute of Urology, joins us again to explain PARP inhibitors and their importance in modern treatment of cancer cells. By blocking DNA repair, the inhibitors help kill off cancer cells to help in treating the disease. Dr. Gotto discusses how to make inhibitors more effective, how to pair them with additional treatments, and how genetic testing is helping doctors identify cancers sooner and with greater precision.

This booklet was written to help you understand the different kinds of drug therapies used to treat cancer. Drug therapies – or treatments – include chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and targeted therapy.

Goes over what chemotherapy is, as well as the different types of chemotherapy, the pros and cons, side effects and what to expect when receiving chemotherapy treatments, as well as suggestions/advice.

List of drugs used in chemotherapy, radiotherapy amd hormone therapy, drugs to treat bone metastases, prostatisis, enlarged prostate, incontinence, urinary tract infection, erectile dysfunction and hot flashes.