New Radiopharmaceutical Improves Survival in Advanced Prostate Cancer

Among patients with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer, treatment with the experimental ¹⁷⁷Lu-PSMA-617 radiopharmaceutical, along with other standard treatments, improved survival by four months over treatment with standard therapies alone, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The therapy targets the PMSA protein and may one day be an option when other treatments have failed.