The Thought Project Podcast At The Graduate Center

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men, with risk factors including age, race, lifestyle, and environmental exposures. Daniel Okpattah, a Biochemistry Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center, studies the molecular processes that drive prostate cancer. His research focuses on how cancer cells grow, survive, and resist treatment, with the goal of improving early detection and developing more effective therapies. In this episode of The Thought Project podcast, Okpattah speaks with journalist Liz Rosenberg about how prostate cancer develops and why some forms are harder to treat than others. He explains the difference between hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, which relies on male hormones like testosterone to grow and can often be treated by lowering hormone levels, and androgen-insensitive prostate cancer, a more aggressive form that continues to grow even without these hormones, making it much harder to treat. Okpattah also explores current treatment options, from surgery and radiation