BackTable Urology
Ep. 206 Biochemical Recurrence: Insights from AUA/ASTRO/SUO Guidelines with Dr. Todd Morgan
17 Dec 2024
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This week on the Backtable Podcast.
Cure is a term that we just like all of us oncologists just really have a hard time saying because pretty much everybody with a history of cancer, of any kind of cancer, has some risk of that cancer coming back. And that risk may be really, really, really low so that we kind of in lay terms use words like cure, but
Really, we tend to rely on a little bit more technical things, which sound awkward, like no evidence of disease. And basically, if we're getting two years, three years, four years out, and no evidence of recurrence, no evidence of disease, we're feeling really, really good, really optimistic.
And often, even times after surgery, when the pathology looks really encouraging, we're feeling really optimistic. And by the way, good news, we have this test, PSA, which is... despite all of its flaws in the screening setting, is an unbelievable biomarker in the post-operative setting.
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Backtable podcast, your source for all things urology. You can find all previous episodes of our podcast on Apple, Spotify, and at backtable.com. Now, a quick word from our sponsor. This discussion is brought to you by VeriCyte, provider of the Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier.
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This is Aditya Bagrodia as your host this week, and I'm very excited to introduce back to the show Todd Morgan from University of Michigan, where he heads up the urologic oncology section. Todd, how's it going today?
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