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Howard I. Scher, MD, on the Prostate Cancer Working Group 3 Consensus

2015 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Howard I. Scher, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the updated criteria that will guide clinical trial design and conduct for therapeutics being tested in castration-resistant prostate cancer (Abstract 5000).



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