Glossary
 

Something that can tell your doctor more about your cancer.

Treatment that uses chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in the body. This includes cancer cells but can also damage some healthy cells.

When tumors disappear with treatment.

Treatment that interferes with the effects of testosterone.

A type of advanced prostate cancer that has spread outside the prostate. It also no longer responds as well to certain hormone treatments.

The total percentage of patients whose cancer responds to treatment in a clinical trial. Their tumors disappear or shrink in size.

Measure of how long patients live after they are assigned treatment in a clinical trial.

When a treatment decreases a tumor’s size.

A substance made by the prostate that may be found in higher-than-normal levels in the blood of men who have prostate cancer. PSA levels are found through a blood test.

A biomarker commonly found on the outside of most prostate cancer cells and some normal cells. A PSMA-PET scan can find PSMA+ cells in your body.

An imaging test that can help find PSMA+ prostate cancer cells in your body.

In a clinical trial, how long patients live without their cancer getting worse after being assigned treatment. It is determined by imaging tests.