PROSTATE CANCER
In the early twenty-first century, societies around the world are facing the paradoxal epidemic development of PCa as a non-communicable disease. PCa is the most frequently diagnosed cancer for men in several countries such as the USA. Permanently improving diagnostics and treatments in the PCa management causes an impressive divergence between, on one hand, permanently increasing numbers of diagnosed PCa cases and, on the other hand, stable or even slightly decreasing mortality rates. 3PM is considered optimal to solve below listed problems in overall PCa management.
• PCa belongs to the cancer types with the highest incidence worldwide. Corresponding economic burden is enormous. Moreover, the costs of treating PCa are currently increasing more quickly than those of any other cancer. Implementing individualised patient profiles and adapted treatment algorithms would make currently too heterogeneous landscape of PCa treatment costs more transparent providing clear “road map” for the cost saving
• PCa is a systemic multi-factorial disease. Consequently, predictive diagnostics by liquid biopsy analysis is instrumental for the disease prediction, targeted prevention and curative treatments at early stages.
• The incidence of metastasing PCa is rapidly increasing particularly in younger populations. Exemplified by trends observed in the USA, prognosis is that the annual burden will increase by over 40% in 2025. To this end, one of the evident deficits is the reactive character of medical services currently provided to populations. Innovative screening programmes might be useful to identify persons in suboptimal health conditions before the clinical onset of metastasing PCa. Strong predisposition to systemic hypoxic conditions and ischemic lesions (e.g. in individuals with deficient microcirculation) and low-grade inflammation might be indicative for specific phenotyping and genotyping in metastasising PCa screening and disease management.
• Particular rapidly increasing PCa incidence rates are characteristic for adolescents and young adults aged 15–40 years. Patients with early onset prostate cancer pose unique challenges; multi-factorial risks for these trends are proposed.
See literature:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ 32843909/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ 33144898/