STAT3 and prostate cancer: These findings emphasize that targeting the STAT3 pathway in prostate cancer cells, including prostate cancer stem cell-like cells, may be a novel potent treatment strategy in patients with advanced prostate cancer resistant to ADT and cytotoxic therapy and that galiellalactone is an important compound for studying STAT3 signaling in prostate cancer and a potential starting point for the development of future prostate cancer drugs.