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I saw some people commenting concerning Dr Luke Nordquist was adding darolutamide to abiraterone in his practice . Does anyone know about this

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I believe is outside the standard of care. Darolutamide is approved for non metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer. It cost around $ 12500 per month and is covered by insurance in nmCRPC.

accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatf...

Darolutamide plus chemo improves survival in castration sensitive PC.

media.bayer.com/baynews/bay...

I do not think is covered by insurance in this situation.

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Tall_Allen

There was a benefit to abiraterone+apalutamide in the ACIS trial:

thelancet.com/journals/lano...

Perhaps he's trying to duplicate that success with Nubeqa

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