The Future of Prostate Cancer Care

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Nov 30, 2025

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Dr. Pedro Barata, an oncologist, explores clinical decision-making and the significance of genomic testing in prostate cancer. Courtney Budler, CEO of Zero Prostate Cancer, discusses the vital role of patient advocacy and community support. Tony Collier shares his personal journey with advanced prostate cancer, emphasizing the importance of peer support. The guests collectively highlight the shift towards patient-centered care, the challenges of balancing medical and emotional needs, and the necessity for ongoing holistic support in navigating this long journey.

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ANECDOTE

Unexpected Diagnosis During Ultramarathon Training

Tony Collier was training for an ultramarathon when groin pain led to a CT scan and a sudden advanced prostate cancer diagnosis.
Doctors initially said it was incurable with a two to three year prognosis, yet Tony has remained stable eight years later.

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Cancer Disrupts Whole Lives

Courtney Budler emphasises that prostate cancer disrupts the whole life, not just the body, and creates isolation due to stigma.
She highlights community and peer support as essential to help people navigate the

ANECDOTE

Partners Share The Burden Of Diagnosis

Tony Collier describes breaking the diagnosis news to his wife as the hardest conversation of his life and notes partners bear heavy impact.
Dr. Pedro Barata adds that care partners often help more by being present during consultations.

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Today, we’ll be tackling the future of prostate cancer care. We’ll be reflecting on what prostate cancer care means in practice, how the way we think about the disease is shifting, and must continue to shift in the years ahead. Scientific advances have transformed treatment in recent years, yet the lived reality of prostate cancer still extends far beyond the clinic. The disease reshapes daily life, and may leave men and their families grappling with difficult choices about how best to manage it.

Dr. Güneş Taylor is joined by three key voices at the centre of this story, following the prostate cancer journey from diagnosis through to long-term management, and asking how patients and clinicians can work together to re-think what patient-centred care could mean in the years to come.

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Bayer, part of their Prostate Cancer Perspectives series.

PP-UN-ONC-GB-0168. November 2025

References

Bray F, et al. Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024;74(3):229-263 (Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men and the fifth leading cause of cancer death worldwide)
James D, et al. The Lancet Commission on prostate cancer: planning for the surge in cases. Lancet. 2024;403(10437):1683–1722 (Each year, around 1.5 million men are diagnosed and nearly 400,000 lose their lives to the disease.1 And the numbers are rising. Diagnoses are projected to double from 1.4 million annually in 2020 to 2.9 million by 2040)
Siegel RL, et al. Cancer statistics, 2022. Ca Cancer J Clin. 2022;72:7–33 (In the U.S., the proportion of men diagnosed with advanced-stage prostate cancer has doubled in recent years, due to increasing incidence of advanced-stage disease and changing guidelines regarding the prostate specific antigen screening test, implemented in the U.S. in 2012)
Dodkins J, et al. Geographic, socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in the incidence of metastatic prostate cancer at time of diagnosis in England: a population based evaluation. BMJ Oncology. 2025;4:e000643 (In England, nearly one in five men only receive a diagnosis once their cancer has spread)
Calvo-Schimmel A, et al. Supportive care interventions and quality of life in advanced disease prostate cancer survivors: An integrative review of the literature. Can Oncol Nurs J. 2021;31(4):412-429 (Advanced prostate cancer is often associated with long-term challenges leading to greater levels of unmet needs in supportive care)

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