The American Urological Association (AUA), together with the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the Society for Urologic Oncology (SUO), has just issued a new set of guidelines for the management of advanced prostate cancer (see here). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: advanced, biochemical, castration-resistant, guideline, hormone-sensitive, metastatic, recurrence | 8 Comments »
So your sitemaster has been looking through the full report from the APCCC meeting held in Basel last year — as he promised he would. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: advanced, castration-resistant, consensus, hormone-naive, hormone-sensitive, mCRPC, metastatic, mHSPC, nmCRPC, nmHSPC, non-metastatic | 2 Comments »
Yesterday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of enzalutamide (Xtandi) for the treatment of metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) — also known as metastatic, castration-rsensitive prostate cancer or mCSPC. … READ MORE …
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The randomized, double-blind, Phase III ENZAMET trial was designed to investigate whether the combination of enzalutamide + standard androgen suppression had superior outcomes than a non-steroidal antiandrogen + standard androgen suppression in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
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At the end of January, we had reported that the results of the TITAN trial — the Phase III trial of standard ADT + apalutamide (Erlead) or standard ADT + a placebo in men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) — were positive, and that they were going to be reported at a meeting later in the year. … READ MORE …
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The results of the 1,125-patient, randomized, double-blind ENZAMET trial are to be reported in a late-breaking abstract at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. … READ MORE …
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Long-term follow-up data from the LATITUDE trial have now been published by Fizazi et al. in Lancet Oncology. … READ MORE …
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On Thursday, here in San Francisco, Dr. Andrew Armstrong first presented the results of the so-called ARCHES trial of enzalutamide (Xtandi) + standard androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in the treatment of men with metastatic, “hormone-sensitive” prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
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According to a media release issued late yesterday by Johnson & Johnson, the combination of apalutamide (Erleada) + androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has met the primary study endpoints in the so-called TITAN trial. … READ MORE …
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Like other, similar drugs before it, ODM-201 — now properly known by the generic name darolutamide — has apparently hit the primary goal of metastasis-free survival in the Phase III ARAMIS trial, as announced yesterday by Bayer and Orion. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: castration-resistant, darolutamide, hormone-sensitive, metastatic, non-metastatic, ODM-201 | 4 Comments »
We note that Pfizer and Astellas have recently modified the protocols for two large, international, randomized, Phase III clinical trials to see if they can get earlier results that might affect the potential for use of enzalutamide (Xtandi) in some groups of men with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (HSPC). … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Drugs in development, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: "high risk", ARCHES, EMBARK, enzalutamide, hormone-sensitive, metastatic, trial | 6 Comments »
A new paper in the Annals of Oncology has addressed the critical question regarding what might be “the best” way we currently have to start treatment for a man newly diagnosed with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC). … READ MORE …
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New guidelines on the management of metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer have just been released by the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO), based primarily on data from the CHAARTED, STAMPEDE, and LATITUDE trial data. … READ MORE …
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Late yesterday the US Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) + prednisone for the treatment of men with “high-risk, castration-sensitive”, metastatic prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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At the time of the original presentation of data from the CHAARTED trial, the median follow-up for patients enrolled in this trial was 28.9 months. We now have data from the same 790 patients followed for a median of 53.7 months. … READ MORE …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: CHAARTED, follow-up. long-term, hormone-sensitive, metastatic | 10 Comments »
If you are on or thinking about active surveillance (AS) as a way to manage your low-risk prostate cancer, you may want to join Prostate Cancer International’s Active Surveillance Virtual Support Group.
Our most recent CureTalk on Prostate Cancer (on February 21 this year) features Eli Van Allen, MD, of the Broad Institute and the Dana-Farber Cancer Center, talking about the new “Metastatic Prostate Cancer Project” and how you can become part of the solution.
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