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Neeraj Agarwal, MD, on Treatment Patterns and Disparities in Patients With Prostate Cancer

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Neeraj Agarwal, MD, of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, discusses three studies that examined real-world treatment patterns and utilization of advanced therapies in men with metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer, which served to highlight the ways in which Black men may be treated differently (Abstracts 5072, 5073, 5704).



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