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Considering your next mCRPC treatment

There is a lot to process when hearing your, or a loved one's, prostate cancer has spread.

About mCRPC: metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer

There are different types of prostate cancer that you may have heard of:

  • Prostate cancer that has spread outside the prostate is considered metastatic

  • Prostate cancer that is no longer responding to hormone treatment that lowers testosterone is considered castration-resistant
     

When your cancer is metastatic and castration-resistant, it is called mCRPC.

If you have mCRPC, you may also be PSMA+ (prostate-specific membrane antigen positive)
You can find out if you are PSMA+ with a PSMA-PET scan
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A PSMA-PET scan is an imaging test that allows your doctor to check for PSMA+ cells, including prostate cancer cells, in your body.

Now might be the time for a DIFFERENT TREATMENT

If you have PSMA+ metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and you have had:

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PET, positron emission tomography; PSMA+, prostate-specific membrane antigen positive.