Fast Five Quiz: Advanced and Metastatic Prostate Cancer Treatment

Daniel S. Schwartz, MD, MBA

May 02, 2022

The Whitmore-Jewett system classifies prostate cancer as stage A, B, C, or D. However, this classification system is no longer widely used because prostate cancer does not always progress sequentially.

Several reliable pretreatment risk classification tools are available for prostate cancer. In a 2019 study, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center nomogram, Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment score, and Cambridge Prognostic Groups risk group system performed best in predicting prostate cancer death. Utilization of these tools in clinical practice may aid in making treatment decisions for patients.

Extracapsular extension of the tumor is a characteristic of stage T3a prostate cancer, whereas invasion of the seminal vesicle(s) denotes stage T3b prostate cancer.

Learn more about the staging of advanced and metastatic prostate cancer.

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Cite this: Daniel S. Schwartz. Fast Five Quiz: Advanced and Metastatic Prostate Cancer Treatment - Medscape - May 02, 2022.

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