More than 50 clinical trials are currently exploring the combination of immunotherapy and other approved treatments for advanced prostate cancer. The results from a phase II trial of sipuleucel-T with or without radium-223 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer were recently published with intriguing findings.
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Srivastava, A., Shore, N.D. Combined advanced prostate cancer treatments: are they additive?. Nat Rev Urol 18, 325–326 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-021-00459-z
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