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ONS member Randy Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing in Charlottesville and member of the Blue Ridge of Virginia ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss racial and other health disparities in patients with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer. Astellas provided support for this podcast episode through an educational grant. 

One in nine men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men in the United States. Survival varies greatly depending on the disease’s severity and extent at diagnosis: five-year survival rates are near 100% for local or regional disease, but they drop to 30% for metastatic prostate cancer.