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. 2025 Feb;87(2):157-216.
doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2024.09.017. Epub 2024 Oct 11.

Management of Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer. Report from the 2024 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC)

Silke Gillessen  1 Fabio Turco  2 Ian D Davis  3 Jason A Efstathiou  4 Karim Fizazi  5 Nicholas D James  6 Neal Shore  7 Eric Small  8 Matthew Smith  9 Christopher J Sweeney  10 Bertrand Tombal  11 Thomas Zilli  12 Neeraj Agarwal  13 Emmanuel S Antonarakis  14 Ana Aparicio  15 Andrew J Armstrong  16 Diogo Assed Bastos  17 Gerhardt Attard  18 Karol Axcrona  19 Mouna Ayadi  20 Himisha Beltran  21 Anders Bjartell  22 Pierre Blanchard  23 Maria T Bourlon  24 Alberto Briganti  25 Muhammad Bulbul  26 Consuelo Buttigliero  27 Orazio Caffo  28 Daniel Castellano  29 Elena Castro  29 Heather H Cheng  30 Kim N Chi  31 Caroline S Clarke  32 Noel Clarke  33 Johann S de Bono  34 Maria De Santis  35 Ignacio Duran  36 Eleni Efstathiou  37 Onyeanunam N Ekeke  38 Tamer I H El Nahas  39 Louise Emmett  40 Stefano Fanti  41 Omolara A Fatiregun  42 Felix Y Feng  43 Peter C C Fong  44 Valerie Fonteyne  45 Nicola Fossati  46 Daniel J George  47 Martin E Gleave  48 Gwenaelle Gravis  49 Susan Halabi  50 Daniel Heinrich  51 Ken Herrmann  52 Michael S Hofman  53 Thomas A Hope  54 Lisa G Horvath  55 Maha H A Hussain  56 Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa  57 Robert J Jones  58 Anthony M Joshua  59 Ravindren Kanesvaran  60 Daniel Keizman  61 Raja B Khauli  62 Gero Kramer  63 Stacy Loeb  64 Brandon A Mahal  65 Fernando C Maluf  66 Joaquin Mateo  67 David Matheson  68 Mika P Matikainen  69 Ray McDermott  70 Rana R McKay  71 Niven Mehra  72 Axel S Merseburger  73 Alicia K Morgans  74 Michael J Morris  75 Hind Mrabti  76 Deborah Mukherji  77 Declan G Murphy  78 Vedang Murthy  79 Shingai B A Mutambirwa  80 Paul L Nguyen  81 William K Oh  82 Piet Ost  83 Joe M O'Sullivan  84 Anwar R Padhani  85 Chris Parker  34 Darren M C Poon  86 Colin C Pritchard  87 Danny M Rabah  88 Dana Rathkopf  75 Robert E Reiter  89 Raphaele Renard-Penna  90 Charles J Ryan  14 Fred Saad  91 Juan Pablo Sade  92 Shahneen Sandhu  53 Oliver A Sartor  93 Edward Schaeffer  56 Howard I Scher  75 Nima Sharifi  94 Iwona A Skoneczna  95 Howard R Soule  96 Daniel E Spratt  97 Sandy Srinivas  98 Cora N Sternberg  99 Hiroyoshi Suzuki  100 Mary-Ellen Taplin  101 Camilla Thellenberg-Karlsson  102 Derya Tilki  103 Levent N Türkeri  104 Hiroji Uemura  105 Yüksel Ürün  106 Claire L Vale  107 Neha Vapiwala  108 Jochen Walz  109 Kosj Yamoah  110 Dingwei Ye  111 Evan Y Yu  30 Almudena Zapatero  112 Aurelius Omlin  113
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Management of Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer. Report from the 2024 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC)

Silke Gillessen et al. Eur Urol. 2025 Feb.
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Abstract

Background and objective: Innovations have improved outcomes in advanced prostate cancer (PC). Nonetheless, we continue to lack high-level evidence on a variety of topics that greatly impact daily practice. The 2024 Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference (APCCC) surveyed experts on key questions in clinical management in order to supplement evidence-based guidelines. Here we present voting results for questions from APCCC 2024.

Methods: Before the conference, a panel of 120 international PC experts used a modified Delphi process to develop 183 multiple-choice consensus questions on eight different topics. Before the conference, these questions were administered via a web-based survey to the voting panel members ("panellists").

Key findings and limitations: Consensus was a priori defined as ≥75% agreement, with strong consensus defined as ≥90% agreement. The voting results show varying degrees of consensus, as discussed in this article and detailed in the Supplementary material. These findings do not include a formal literature review or meta-analysis.

Conclusions and clinical implications: The voting results can help physicians and patients navigate controversial areas of clinical management for which high-level evidence is scant or conflicting. The findings can also help funders and policymakers in prioritising areas for future research. Diagnostic and treatment decisions should always be individualised on the basis of patient and cancer characteristics, and should incorporate current and emerging clinical evidence, guidelines, and logistic and economic factors. Enrolment in clinical trials is always strongly encouraged. Importantly, APCCC 2024 once again identified important gaps (areas of nonconsensus) that merit evaluation in specifically designed trials.

Keywords: Adjuvant therapy; Biochemical recurrence; Bone protection; Genetics and genomics; Hormonal treatment; Next-generation imaging; Positron emission tomography; Prostate cancer; Prostate-specific membrane antigen; Salvage therapy.

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