Patients with prostate cancer commonly have significant depression, highlighting a need for screenings in those with poor social determinants of health, concomitant disability, and advanced disease.
Results from the phase 2 ODEZA trial comparing patient preference of antiandrogen agents indicates benefits of darolutamide over enzalutamide in terms of certain cognitive functions in men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Geriatric patients with prostate cancer did not experience a decline in cognative function regardless of treatment.
“These findings highlight the dynamic interplay between both providers and their patients as well as between the latter’s [health literacy] and [shared decision making] that should inform the creation and promulgation of [shared decision making] guidelines, specifically when considering patients with low [health literacy],” wrote David-Dan Nguyen, MPH, and colleagues.