A Stage 4B or Metastatic Prostate Cancer diagnosis means that the tumor has spread to your lymph nodes outside the pelvis or to other organs in your body, most commonly to the bones.

What Tests Will I Need and Why?

Blood and Imaging tests are done to understand your general health, confirm your diagnosis and determine your cancer stage.

Tissue Analysis is done to identify the cancer cell type and the Gleason Score, which is critical to finding the best treatment option for you.

In addition, your doctors will determine if your tumor is Castration Naive/Sensitive or Castration Resistant to come up with treatment options that are suitable for your specific Prostate Cancer type.

Castration Naive or Castration Sensitive Prostate Cancer is used to describe patients who have not been treated with Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) previously or are not on an ADT at the time of progression or relapse.

Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer is used to define patients who have failed to respond to ADT (PSA elevation or new tumors on imaging tests during ADT treatment).

You may also require special Saliva or Blood Analysis to look for specific mutations (actual changes in your body’s DNA), called BRCA1 and BRCA2.

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