What Is Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer?

Advanced prostate cancer patients can present with both widely metastatic or oligometastatic disease. Accumulating clinical evidence suggests that patients with oligometastatic disease have improved clinical responses from metastasis-directed therapy. This suggests that tumours that give rise to the oligometastatic state are distinct biologically and genetically from those that induce widely metastatic lesions. Detailed genomic analysis of the...