# Silke Gillessen

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## TL;DR

Founder and chair of the APCCC consensus conference that guides advanced prostate cancer management worldwide.

## Summary

Silke Gillessen (IOSI, Bellinzona) founded the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference, whose biennial reports are the most widely used expert guidance on managing advanced prostate cancer where trial evidence is lacking. She was a lead investigator in STAMPEDE and in trials of PSMA radioligand therapy and helped establish the Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research GU programme.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: prostate; guidelines; switzerland
- Role: Medical and Scientific Director, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI), Bellinzona
- Specialisms: Prostate cancer; Consensus guidelines; Genitourinary oncology; Treatment sequencing

## Sources

- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Gillessen%20S%5BAuthor%5D%20prostate%20consensus

## Connected records

- cancers: [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- institutions: [Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI)](https://onco.cc/institutions/iosi-bellinzona/)
- trials: [STAMPEDE](https://onco.cc/trials/stampede/)
- key papers: [STAMPEDE: adding abiraterone to hormone therapy at diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-stampede-abiraterone-nejm-2017/)
- journals: [European Urology](https://onco.cc/journals/european-urology/)

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