Below the Belt Award

There is a need to better understand men and their partners/informal carers’ experiences of advanced prostate cancer over time. To date, no study has qualitatively explored the experiences of men with advanced prostate cancer and their partners throughout their involvement in a medical trial. Accordingly, we propose a multi-perspective qualitative longitudinal study nested within the TheraP trial; a trial which compares a new type of advanced prostate cancer treatment, Lu-PSMA, with a type of chemotherapy called cabazitaxel, which is the standard treatment for advanced prostate cancer when other treatments have stopped working. We will interview trial participants after enrolment, at the mid-point of treatment, and on completion of the treatment. We will report motivations for trial participation among men with advanced cancer, common themes of their trial participant experience, and identify needs unique to men within a medical trial.