Marc B. Garnick, MD

Marc B. Garnick, MD

Harvard University

Boston, Massachusetts

Dr. Garnick is the Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he also directs the hospital’s role as a tertiary cancer center for 7 affiliated community cancer centers. He has dedicated his career to the development of new therapies for prostate cancer. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for The Annual Report on Prostate Diseases, formerly Perspectives on Prostate Disease. He served as the initial academic co-principal investigator for the commonly used prostate cancer drug leuprolide (Lupron). In addition to his academic affiliations, Dr. Garnick founded the Hershey Family Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, serves as medical adviser to World Book Encyclopedia, and is an active advisory member of several FDA panels and advisory committees. He has served on the boards of trustees of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and of Penn Medicine. Dr. Garnick is also a Trustee Emeritus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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Talks by Marc B. Garnick, MD

Review of the New Standard in Treatment and Global Issues: Androgen Deprivation Treatment (ADT), Chemotherapy, Androgen Receptors Inhibitors, and Androgen Synthesis Inhibitors

Review of the New Standard in Treatment and Global Issues: Androgen Deprivation Treatment (ADT), Chemotherapy, Androgen Receptors Inhibitors, and Androgen Synthesis Inhibitors

Posted by | May 2023

Marc B. Garnick, MD, Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, reviews current literature on the treatment of prostate cancer. Dr. Garnick focuses specifically on Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT,) Chemotherapy, Androgen Receptor Inhibitors, and Androgen Synthesis Inhibitors.

In this presentation, Dr. Garnick explores the current landscape of Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatments, the use of triplet therapies in combating metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mCSPC), and the possibility of avoiding ADT by combining advanced imaging techniques with Metastases-Directed Therapy (MDT).

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Standard Treatments and Global Perspective

Posted by | Jan 2022

Marc B. Garnick, MD, the Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, summarizes recent developments in nomenclature, disease states, and standard treatments for advanced prostate cancer. Using material from a chapter he wrote for ASCO-SEP with David J. Einstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Garnick begins by considering the new language used to describe different states of advanced prostate cancer, including non-metastatic castrate-sensitive prostate cancer (nmCSPC), non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC), metastatic castrate-sensitive prostate cancer (mCSPC), and oligometastatic prostate cancer. He then discusses new standards of care for these different states, highlighting recent research indicating the benefits of using darolutamide, enzalutamide, and apalutamide in the nmCRPC setting, and explaining how to appropriately layer and sequence therapies across disease states. He briefly looks at the role of next-generation sequencing in informing the potential benefit of PARP or PD-L1 inhibitors and touches on bone considerations in mCRPC. Dr. Garnick concludes with some comments on the global inequities of prostate cancer treatment, citing data on the significant disparity in mortality-to-incidence rate of prostate cancer in high-income countries compared to low- to middle-income countries.

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The Prostate – Highlights of Prostate Cancer Advances As Covered in ASCO-SEP

Posted by | Sep 2021

Marc B. Garnick, MD, the Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, provides a capsulated summary of key references from the ASCO Self-Evaluation Program (ASCO-SEP) 7. He also distills information of interest for practice change related to urologic oncology, particularly prostate cancer, published over the last 12-18 months. Dr. Garnick covers topics including: the emerging role and trends of MRI following elevated PSA values; the introduction of the first oral GnRH antagonist (relugolix) for endocrine management of locally advanced, biochemical recurrence or de novo metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer; improvements in overall survival (OS) with the addition of androgen receptor antagonists to androgen deprivation therapy; and approvals of three drugs for improving metastasis-free survival and OS in non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Dr. Garnick then reviews ASCO, European Association of Urology (EAU), and ASTRO guidelines published during the COVID-19 pandemic and concludes by sharing data from within the ASCO-SEP chapter on genitourinary cancers that offer a global perspective on mortality disparities for prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular, and penile cancers. He finishes the presentation by pointing out a “sobering” difference in mortality-to-incidence ratios, a parameter to estimate health system performance, between high- and low-to-middle-income countries worldwide.

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The Role of FSH in Prostate Cancer

The Role of FSH in Prostate Cancer

Posted by | Mar 2018

Marc B. Garnick, MD, discusses whether or not follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) affects prostate cancer progression and cause adverse effects when used in combination with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). He presents evidence for both the pro and con sides of this argument.

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