Treatment Strategies for Gleason 3+4=7 vs. 4+3=7 | Ask a Prostate Cancer Expert, Mark Scholz, MD

PCRI's CEO, Alex Scholz, asks medical oncologist, Mark Scholz, MD, about the distinctions between Gleason 4+3=7 and 3+4=7, temporary versus permanent seed implants, and the significance of seminal vesicle invasion.

0:05 What treatment options are available for men with Gleason 7 (3+4, not 4+3) prostate cancer?

1:23 How should Gleason 7 (4+3) be treated?

3:22 What seed implant therapies do you suggest, temporary (HDR) or permanent?

4:07 How should cancer in the seminal vesicles be treated and what are the risks?

5:23 What are the next steps after discovering spread to the seminal vesicles?

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