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Peter H. Carroll, MD, MPH, and James L. Mohler, MD, updated attendees on what is new in the 2018 NCCN Guidelines for Prostate Cancer Early Detection and for Prostate Cancer, respectively. Their presentations touched on new screening recommendations, shared decision-making, risk stratification, the role of genomic and molecular testing, active surveillance, and newer systemic treatments., (Copyright © 2018 by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.)

Since its introduction more than 70 years ago, the use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer has evolved to become part of a multimodal management approach. In this presentation from the NCCN 21st Annual Conference, James L. Mohler, MD, reviewed data that inform these strategies and gave his bottom-line recommendations on issues such as ADT plus radiotherapy, continuous versus intermittent ADT, ADT for positive nodes, and ADT plus docetaxel. He suggested that ADT plus radiation therapy should be used in patients at high risk, intermittent ADT is more appropriate for most patients than continuous ADT, and docetaxel should be given with ADT for high-volume metastatic disease., (Copyright © 2016 by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.)