The Promise of Metastasis-Directed Therapy for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer: Going Beneath the Surface with Molecular Imaging
Philip Sutera, Ryan Phillips, Matthew P. Deek, Gökhan Özyiğit, Cem Önal, Phuoc T. Tran
Abstract
Historically, metastatic disease was thought to represent an all-or-nothing incurable state, distinct from curable localized disease and necessitating treatment with systemic therapy alone. The role for life-prolonging local therapy was known to be futile. This dogma was challenged in the 1990s with
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Prostate cancerMedicineDiseaseMetastasisSystemic therapyCancer therapyCancerNothingOncologyInternal medicinePhilosophyBreast cancerEpistemologyProstate Cancer Treatment and ResearchRadiopharmaceutical Chemistry and ApplicationsMass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications